“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”