“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“You're going to come across people who say all the right words at the right times. In the end, judge them by their actions. Actions, not words, matter.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, make you think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn't going to quote poetry or think about you every moment, but he will give you a part of himself that he knows you could break. Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect more than he can give. Don't analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he's not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy who is perfect for you.”

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.”

“You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still it won't mean as much as sitting silently with them and feeling them with your heart, like you've known them forever. Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

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

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

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

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where "there" is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

“I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

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

“We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love, true love.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers.”