“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can n...”

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are ...”

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”