Words worth keeping

I can resist anything except temptation.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.