Every accepted public quote

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

“It's not worth it to remain in a relationship that has grown too old to make you feel too young at heart. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, eve...”

“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Stupid people are dangerous.”

“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them rela...”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

“Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of o...”

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”

“And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some s...”

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was no...”

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock...”

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sens...”

“Faith is the evidence of things not seen.”

“Relationships are like promises. Either you keep them or you break them. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's esp...”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any...”

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation o...”

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”