life

"There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing."

"She cuts me deep with her words, with her withholding of words, and with her knife. I’m not sure which is the most painful."

"I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same."

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this."

"Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful."

"Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning."

"They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will."

"If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay."

"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."

"Long week. Long month. Long life."

"A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"My cup is full of air. I should empty it and fill it with love. Or coffee, as the two are synonymous to me."

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content"