Always do what you are afraid to do

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still...

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream

I cannot live without books

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"<br /> "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."<br /> "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.<br...

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want?...

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Never memorize something that you can look up

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me....

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to...

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a...

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't