I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
There is no exquisite beauty? without some strangeness in the proportion.
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.
Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.