“You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.”

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

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

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.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

My heart is ever at your service.