“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”

“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But therell be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there wont! ...”

“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”

“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”

“The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.”

“Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?”

“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.”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they ...”

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiti...”

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instanc...”