“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”

“It does, Tennyson, because theres a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Theres a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And youre on the wrong side of both lines.”

“So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?”

“The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.”

“Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.”

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

“Voicemail #1: Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of your mother. Call me.Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of Ive G...”

“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”

“Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety cant be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found thats never been c...”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”

“Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.”