“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Unbroken hearts tell no stories.

Broken glass taught me there is something so beautiful in shattering.

A broken heart bleeds tears.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Sometimes if you just take the time to really pay attention and break it down, you can figure out what caused it. And from there, generally, I can pull myself up out of it. And if I can’t, that’s where the support group comes in.

Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

I learned that I cannot lay down my hope to people, because people break my heart too.

There’s something about breaking up with someone – you just look hotter than you ever did before.