Favorite Quotes

[Wylder Treejumper]

The disciple Kung-tu said, "All are equally men, but some are great men, and some are little men. How is this?"

Mencius replied, " Those who follow that part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow that part which is little are little men... Let a man first stand fast in the supremacy of the nobler part of his constitution, and the inferior part will not be able to take it from him. It is simply this which makes the great man."

[Gonff the Mousethief]

"Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved." Winnie the Pooh

[Captain Tammo]

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

-William Shakespeare. Julius Ceasar
(Wow Brian]

Doesn't Luke the Warrior say a variation of this at the end of his story in The Legend of Luke?

[Hickory]

That was what I meant. Kind of takes the sheen of a quote like that.

[alexandre]

     "If you want a job done well, do it yourself" 

- I don't know

     

[Jetthebinturong]

"Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to."
~ Kingdom of the Wicked, Derek Landy

"Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I don't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What's yours?"
~ Kingdom of the Wicked, Derek Landy

[Søren]

A letter from Augustus Waters to Peter Van Houten:
Van Houten,
    I'm a good person but a horrible writer. You're a horrible person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. I don't want to ask you for any favours, but if you have time- and from what I saw, you have plenty- I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I've got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever? Or even just tell me what I should say differently. Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.  (Okay maybe I'm not such a horrible writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.)  Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we are not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten it's triumphant. It's heroic.  After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious. I walked in behind the nurse and got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too. I just held her hand and tried to imagine a world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her. You don't get to choose the ones you hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
-The Fault in our Stars, Augustus' posthumous letter to Van Houten, who then forwarded it to Hazel.

[Maudie]

@Soren, That's actually beautiful. John Green can write beautifully, but I never get to the good parts of his books because the language is such a big turn off for me.

[Gonff the Mousethief]

"Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write." - J.R.R Tolkien.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."- J.R.R Tolkien.

"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."  - J.R.R Tolkien.

[Maudie]

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis

[Jetthebinturong]

Ooh that's a great one.

"I now realize that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
~ Mewtwo, Mewtwo Strikes Back

"We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different, well, who knows?"
~ Meowth, Mewtwo Returns

Wow. That feel when Pokémon is really insightful.

[Eulaliaaa!]

"People believe what they want to believe. Everyone loves a hero."
-The Governor, The Walking Dead

[Kitsune]

"People are juvenile infants sometimes"

-My dad, right now while driving on the highway

[Jetthebinturong]

"I hate living on the edge, you always fall off."
~ Tom "Angor" Clarke.

[Wylder Treejumper]

"Food and sleep are good."

-Every teenager ever