Words worth keeping

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

Laters, baby.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now.""That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.