He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. - William Herondale

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.