Every accepted public quote

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”

“Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some...”

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”

“In the beginning, God made Nigeria a place to live. In the end, her leaders turned her into a hell of a place to live. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“You don't need to be literate in order to read the human mind. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”

“Happiness is when your creditor cancels your debt, shortly after your debtor pays you. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance...”

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“She would not go quietly. She was not afraid.”

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“I said hello to the poodle.”

“No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. Bu...”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”

“Call no man happy till he is dead.”

“Everyone sounded the same when they died.”

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yip...”

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a...”

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”

“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had...”

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

“hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

“Is today a good day to die?”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

“Every villian is a hero in his own mind.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

“Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to...”