“Depression is the absence of hope.”

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Death comes for us all in the end.

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.

There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.