“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“When he shall die,”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."”

“To be nobody but”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," I said, sighing. "Is it?" Veronica asked, surprised. "Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes societies beyond this planet, and besides..." "No, no, it's a quote from... Never mind," I said.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

“I think... if it is true that”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“"What the hell is that?" I laughed.”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot.”

“We are all different. Don't judge; understand instead.”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“"May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.”

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“I hope that in this year to come you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you're doing something.”

“"Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart."”

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

“What's meant to be will always find a way.”

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”