Every accepted public quote

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

“You could rattle the stars,’ she whispered. ‘You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”

“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha li...”

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd...”

“Forever is composed of nows.”

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining th...”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these ther...”

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to ass...”

“Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”

“You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”

“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. T...”

“The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful...”

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Poli...”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him g...”

“It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were t...”

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told...”

“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the w...”

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”

“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”