You're such a book girl.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.

How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

Were you hugging Clary?" He looked at Sebastian in amazement. Sebastian shrugged. "She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her." "You don't hug people," Jace said. "I ran out of time to bake a casserole.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.