“Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.”

I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

The loss of innocence is inevitable bitterness does not have to be.

Pain can be heavy, sometimes leaving our hearts feeling fragile and empty.

I no longer know how to find myself under the weight of who I had to be.

We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.

I want to be loved so I try to be you then I realize what I see in you is in the mirror looking back at me.

Pain comes in waves, it can help us rise up but it can also knock us down.

I remind myself what I desire in another is myself undiscovered.

Life is the reason we are here love is the reason we stay.