Quotes from Books

You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Fairy tales are not just for children; they can be dark and profound.

It is a strange thing to be afraid of something that you don't know.

Sometimes, you have to be brave enough to face your own fears.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

I love the desert and its all-consuming silence.

The monkey wrench is a symbol of resistance and rebellion against the machine.

Love is the only human possibility that we can achieve.

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee.

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Courage, dear heart.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

You must trust your intuition and let it lead you to your destiny.

Life is a series of choices, and we must make them with courage.

Love is a force that transforms and improves the soul.

The greatest gift is the ability to see the beauty in the world and in ourselves.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love is like the ocean, it comes in waves.

I am not a race. I am a human being.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewheremight be doing.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the dead are more interesting than the living.

Death is not a problem; it is merely an event.

There are no such things as accidents; there are only events with consequences.

The universe is rarely what it seems.

Things are not always what they appear to be.

Magic is a thing that can be done, not a thing that can be understood.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

It is said that the universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

The witches are not as they seem; they are far more than a mere collection of old crones.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

We are all connected. To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Sometimes, you have to take a leap of faith.

I am not a role model.

I think that I should be able to do whatever I want to do.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Comics are a medium, not a genre.

Words and pictures are a unique combination that can convey meaning in ways that neither can alone.

The act of reading comics is a unique and personal experience.

The only thing I ever really wanted was a chance to be in love.

I was a little bit crazy, and I didn’t care.

You can’t really see the world clearly when you’re in love, or when you’re high.

Love is an action, a participatory act of devotion.

Life-transforming ideas about love must be communicated.

To love is to recognize that we are not separate from one another.

We are all language learners, and the language we learn is not a mere reflection of our thoughts but a major influence on it.

Language is a window into human nature.

The mind is not a blank slate; it is a complex organ shaped by evolution.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

What gets measured gets managed.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Music is the language of the spirit.

The things that matter most are the things we cannot see.

Sometimes, you have to make a mess to find out what you really want.

We can never know what our lives will be worth to us.

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The only person you can control is yourself.

We are driven by our needs, and our choices are our responses to those needs.

Freedom is the power to choose your own path.

I was still a boy, but I was not a child.

The man who kills, is he not a man? The man who dies, is he not a man?

I had to fight to survive, to make a life for myself.