Words worth keeping

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

The future depends on what you do today.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

I got schooled this yearbyaboy.A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.