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“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that

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

What a slut time is. She screws everybody

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt lik

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

You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.