“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could...

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to...

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

“When you know better you do better.”

“Have you tried talking to her?" <br /> "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“Accio Brain!”

“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”

“There are much worse games to play.”

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

“When I pronounce the word Future,<br /> the first syllable already belongs to the past.<br /> <br /> When I pronounce the word Silence,<br /> I...

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”

“Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”