Words worth keeping

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage."Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.