Every accepted public quote

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think...”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an anim...”

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fi...”

“You do not yield.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and k...”

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisan...”

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

“"Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy."”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“By you, I am forever undone.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone...”

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smokin...”

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', t...”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”