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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
― James Dean

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”
― James Dean

“The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.”
― James Dean

“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, "Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean said, "They've got to see us," just before slamming his Porsche into another car. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
― James Dean

“I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
― James Dean

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

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

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman