Book Quotes (Page 2)

It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It’s at least partially because I survived you that I’m the person I am today.

In order to find some solution to the bullying problem, we’ll have to be more tolerant of ambiguity, subtlety, and strangeness not just in other people but in ourselves. It may be important to your identity that you are a soccer player, but it may be equally important that you can whistle the national anthem backward and make the world’s best spicy popcorn and do a wicked impression of Victoria Beckham. Schools, parents, and educational endeavors should encourage people not just to empathize but to discover and celebrate the weirdness in others and in ourselves. We need not just to think but to live outside the box. Weirdness is good. It keeps things interesting.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

'Morning, sunshine.'
Vlad blinked at her. 'Morning, sulfuric acid.'
'Pardon me?'
'Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?'

'I drive well!'
'Says who your mom?'
'No actually, she won't even get in the car with me.'

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.

M for Maven, M for monster, M for murder.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

If you fail, you burn

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

I'm sad because my sadness is not sadness.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

We learn more by remembering than forgetting.

You only get healing by remembering.
Forgetting is just suppression.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.

I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.

I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet.

That’s how you know you’ve mastered a videogame - when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they’ve just suffered at your hands.

That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

Going outside is highly overrated.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

'You’re evil, you know that?' I said.
She grinned and shook her head. 'Chaotic Neutral, sugar.'

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.