I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

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

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.