“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.”

“There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.”

“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines.”

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours.”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

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

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

“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, something helpless that wants our love.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live?”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“My dear fellow, who will let you?”

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?”

“Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'”

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

“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.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”