Austin Webberly > Austin's Quotes

“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
― Kathleen Kelly

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.

We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.

So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
― John Green

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines