“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I...

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”

“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle...

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."<br /> Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.”

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.<br /> Letting go?"<br /> <br /> Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot...

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”