“Loving someone deeply makes us blind to the signs of emotional neglect.”
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of...”
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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying...”
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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
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“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for sho...”
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“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
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“I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking question...”
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“you can never love someone as much as you miss them”
“Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.”
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“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the sh...”
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
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“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.”
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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“History, huh?”
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“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
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“Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.”
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I...”
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
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“The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness.”
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“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
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“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving B...”
“The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.”
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obsta...”
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“And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-”
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“I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met.”
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“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the f...”
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“So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]”
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“I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No o...”
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“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”
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“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
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“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray”
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“It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.”
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power ove...”
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“Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as w...”
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“Having faith is great, but beliefs are so dangerous. Some people end up selling their souls to the religions.”
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“A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.”
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“I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.”
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