She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.

Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

Iman

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Samuel Lover

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose the way you areYou, the way you are

Brandon Boyd

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Eddie Izzard

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals.

Oscar Wilde

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Justin Townes Earle

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

Sylvia Day

Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.

Hubbell

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Pietro Metastasio