“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“For last year's words belong to last year's language <br /> And next year's words await another voice.”

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

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd...

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

“So you're always honest," I said.<br /> "Aren't you?"<br /> "No," I told him. "I'm not."<br /> "Well, that's good to...

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.<br /> "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch...

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away....

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget...