Words worth keeping

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

The best way out is always through.

How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond. "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. "You were asleep, too?" "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.