“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Maybe "Okay" will be our "always"...”

“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”

“If he’s not calling you, he’s not on his mind. If he creates expectations and doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do the same for bigger things. Be aware that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t stay with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he chooses not to make a simple effort that would ease a recurring fight, he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is often an excuse. You deserve a f**king phone call.”

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“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.”

“It's strange because sometimes I read a book and think I am the people in the book.”

“No relationship is perfect. There are always ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences, and that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”

“You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.”

“And in the end.”

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

“Do you think I am an automaton, a machine without feelings? Can I bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you and full as much heart. If God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through custom, conventionalities, nor even through mortal flesh; it is my spirit that addresses your spirit, just as if both had passed through the grave and we stood at God's feet equal as we are.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

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

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

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

““Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.””

“"To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls who break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her."”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”

“There are no good girls gone wrong; just bad girls found out.”

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”

“I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold; I have those things already. I want a steady hand, a kind soul. I want to fall asleep and wake knowing my heart is safe. I want to love and be loved.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; often we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1, .12, .112, and an infinite collection of others. Of course there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

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

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

“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.”

“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', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“"I don't care!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I've had enough, I've seen enough, I want out, I want it to end, I don't care anymore!"”

“And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

“"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.”

“Where there is love, there is life.”

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

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”