She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”

“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”

“An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”

“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”

“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”

“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”

“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”

“Even nothing cannot last forever.”

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

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”

“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”

“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”