December Witch

If there’s even a slight chance at getting something that will make you happy, risk it. Life’s too short, and happiness is too rare.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

It is possible to carry life and death in the same sentence. In the same body. It is possible to carry love and pain.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

What happens when people open their hearts?"

"They get better.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.