Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.