Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’
What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well – or ill?