Every accepted public quote

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When y...”

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may...”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness...”

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was e...”

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And ye...”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They w...”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and maki...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”

“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and c...”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”