Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

It hurts being the one who loves more

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.

He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.

The world of books is the wealth of being.

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow.

You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered.

Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.