Every accepted public quote

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

“Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent.”

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“And what god do you serve, then?” “Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.”

“Not flowers—never flowers in Terrasen. Instead, they carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered. Stones were eternal—flowers were not.”

“Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Bloo...”

“This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.”

“He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs… “Okay,” Frank relented. “Sure.” He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. “Uh, how d...”

“Say it,” I gritted out. “The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate.”

“I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. “Has anyone ever taken care of you?” he asked quietly. “No.” I’d long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it.”

“He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did a...”

“Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“Nobody will save yeu, Some can't even save themselves”

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

“The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers...”

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”

“To live is to grieve.”

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”

“"There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it."”

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“Those who believe in it are the ones who find it”

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but onl...”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if only you dared.”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your h...”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”