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

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.