Every accepted public quote

“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.”

“There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, s...”

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”

“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”

“They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder...”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely...”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

“And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.”

“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.”

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”

“Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.”

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not...”

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”

“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.”

“If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”

“Is it possible to silence the mind of a lover without losing it? Getting desires fulfilled might satisfy it, taking away its peace.”

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four...”

“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”

“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parri...”

“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the co...”

“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do...”

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”

“Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.”

“I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'”

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.”

“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”

“Relationships are about taking off the mask you wear to make someone like you and letting them see the real you. The one you hid all the time. The one you never thought was good enough to fi...”

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or co...”

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

“Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Categ...”

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

“I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even...”

“Education is the key; only when you've got the MASTER key to unlock all the locks!”