The best Quotes by Sean Carroll

To Mom,
Who took me to the library.

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading can be as magical as any spell.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

To my husband, David Yoon, who showed me my heart.
And to my smart, beautiful daughter Penny, who made it bigger.

To the First Mother who Brings up a Happy Child.

To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

For Kate and Morgan
and for everyone
whose first love
was a hard love.

To all the English teachers, especially the great ones.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.