"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Not my Daughter, you Bitch!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

""How did you-"
"Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened."
— Maria V. Snyder

"Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some Good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo."
— Maria V. Snyder (Poison Study)

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"They always forget the last part of that saying: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" its something to that effect anyway."
— Tamora Pierce

"When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks."
— Tamora Pierce

"I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'."
— Tamora Pierce

"A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure"
— Tamora Pierce (The Immortals)

"Someday I must read this scholar everyone. He seems to have written so much-all of it wrong.
-Daine"
— Tamora Pierce (Emperor Mage)

"I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum"
— Janet Evanovich (Two for the Dough)

"I came, I saw, I conquered "
— Gaius Julius Caesar

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselssly into the past."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior."
— Gaius Valerius Catullus

"soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda. "
— Gaius Valerius Catullus (Carmina)

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds."
— Libba Bray

"It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go;
To right the unrightable wrong.

To love, pure and chaste, from afar,
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

This is my Quest to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause!

And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious Quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest.

And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable stars!"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Amor tussisque non caelatur: neither love or a cough can be concealed."
— Quoted in Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura"
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."
— Tennessee Williams

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
— Philip Pullman

"Carpe Diem"
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
— Henry Van Dyke