You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life lived.

She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.

The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist.

And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom — blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to be...

Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.

I take it we're friends now, " Henry said. "We must be, " Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so, " Blue agreed.

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.