Every accepted public quote

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Keep Going Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”

“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need...”

“Truth means something different when it's given freely.”

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”

“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

“Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.”

“While people study several years after high school to become like everyone else, me meanwhile, since leaving high school, I devote all my time to leave my mark in this world.”

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fist...”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the thin...”

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gatew...”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.”

“Peace begins with a smile..”

“She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.”

“If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If y...”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”

“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as the starfish loves a coral reef and...”

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but...”

“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”

“Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story wh...”