“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together, knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“'Tis better to have loved and lost.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

“You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

“It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of Our Enemies Since 1234."”

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

“I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“The story so far:”

“Have you ever noticed how 'what the hell' is always the right decision to make?”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.”

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do?”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

“Remember: if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good and kind and brave because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“If there is ever a tomorrow when we're not together, remember this: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Most important, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”