It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!

You lose your manners when you're poor.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.