Claire's favorite quotes

"I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan and Wendy)

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational

1,533 people liked it

""And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women."
"My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her."
"Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!""
— Joseph Delaney (Revenge of the Witch)

tags: trust, witch, women

6 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

16,595 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep

10,863 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor

5,906 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight

5,704 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories

928 people liked it

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Betrayed)

227 people liked it

"Without peanut butter, I might starve."
— Judy Blume

14 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

9,657 people liked it

"If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it."
— Coleen Murtagh Paratore (The Cupid Chronicles)

4 people liked it

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."
— Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes)

tags: boys, halloween, magical, october

7 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love

1,764 people liked it

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

175 people liked it

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: dust, faith, life, pixie, trust

144 people liked it

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

111 people liked it

"‘Wendy,’ Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, ‘Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.’"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

101 people liked it

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

116 people liked it

"Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"
"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: women

43 people liked it

"Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

42 people liked it

"Boy, why are you crying?"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

18 people liked it

""Boy," she said courteously, "why are you crying?""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: lovable

2 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling

15,289 people liked it

"On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

41 people liked it

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