“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."”

“He must have known I'd want to leave you.”

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.”

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

“"I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

“No. I can survive well enough on my own if given the proper reading material.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

“Dare to Be.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for "good luck."”

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.”

“There are wounds that never show on the body, that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell on the past, do not worry about the future, and focus on living fully in the present.”

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being, not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.”

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

“My daddy said that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever, and no matter how hard you try, that feeling never goes away.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”