Every accepted public quote

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when it's morning again, they'll wash away Here it's safe, here it's warm...”

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for b...”

“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.”

“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.”

“Finding a good friend is a downright task. Keeping him is an uphill task. Losing him is a mournful task. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

“There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process,...”

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

“If you want to scare your enemies make more friends. If you want to scare your friends, make more enemies. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the r...”

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but m...”

“"I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall."”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

“How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.”

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

“But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.”

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”

“As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

“'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the ker...”