Every accepted public quote

“I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to...”

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.”

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talki...”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

“Happiness is a thing of the heart. Pleasure is a thing of the brain. Both are like twins fathered by two different men. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has b...”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

“I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

“Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I no longer Remember your hands; how did your lips Feel on mine? Becaus...”

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light...”

“Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”

“One day, your life will flash before your life. Make sure it's worth watching.”

“As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]”

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl o...”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

“Circe, he says, it will be all right. It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we a...”

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

“When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile...”

“Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're...”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”

“We read to know we're not alone.”

“We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”