“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today, and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved, and all the cities I have visited.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“Do you think I'm pretty?”

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

“How did you die?”

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“There are no happy endings.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“Investigation? Isabelle laughed. Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

“Why is it I feel I've known you so many years?”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Name one hero who was happy.”

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them, if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.”

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. One day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

“If cats looked like frogs, we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous."”