Words worth keeping

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.