“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist;...

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among...

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.”

“Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine...

“That man is such a damn turd monkey."<br /> "Grandma!" I said.<br /> "Oh, Zoeybird, did I just call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey...

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?”

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is...

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.”

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”

“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”