Every accepted public quote

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“Hard times are the detergents that wash off fake friends and fake family members. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laught...”

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I...”

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

“The exchange had involved a lot of yelling, death threats, and high velocity pineapples.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you...”

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”

“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”

“If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.”

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a d...”

“A great family consists of a father who is a hard nut to crack, a mother who is a hard nut to chew and children who are hard nuts to swallow. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You bu...”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accor...”

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone....”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“You can always tell how successful a man is when his divorced wife still bears his name. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I see. Because all this time the monster has been me.”

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps....”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

“Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is...”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”