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

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“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.”

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?”

“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.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

“"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 love me. Real or not real?”

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

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“My dear fellow, who will let you?”

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”