“The first ten lies they tell you in high school.”

“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."”

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

“But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true; it's called Life.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

“The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; that is, the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally, and often far more, worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“A woman should have money and a man who loves her.”

“Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

“If I ever have kids and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that, because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't change the fact that you have what you have.”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.'”

“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real?" he whispers.”

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”