Words worth keeping

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot.""Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I cannot live without books.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.