Your deeds are your monuments.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind

I think the only person who realizes how ordinary I am is me.

For any one of us, our forever could end in an hour or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. What you have to decide is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it?
--Kristy

This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy, full, okay again. I didn't know what it was, not yet. But something told me I wouldn't find it here.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
--Delia

I intend to change my name as soon as I get to a place where nobody knows me, you know, where I can reinvent myself. I've always wanted to do that.
--Kristy

So I narrowed my world, cutting out everyone who'd known me or who tried to befriend me. It was the only thing I knew to do.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
--Ashley

Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
--Ashley

I resented everyone lately.

It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year.....

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
--Lord Henry Wotton

Life is a great disappointment.
--Dorian Gray

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
--Dorian Gray

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.
--Dorian Gray

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
--Dorian Gray

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
--Lord Henry Wotton

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
--Lord Henry Wotton

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the tradename of the firm. That is all.
--Lord Henry Wotton

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
--Basil Hallward

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we should all live--undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.
--Basil Hallward

I can't take much more. I'll kill myself or something.
--Johnny

The chips are always down when it's our turn, but that's the way things are. Like it or lump it.
--Two-Bit

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
--Ponyboy

Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words.

Home was all I ever wanted.

She did not feel beautiful. She felt old, used, filthy, ugly. There were stretch marks on her belly from the children she had borne, and her breasts were not as firm as they had been when she was younger.

Words are wind. Words cannot hurt me.

My face is a dark pool, hiding everything, showing nothing.

I have no heart. I only have a hole.
--Arya

It was my home, though. Not a true home, but the best I ever knew.

No one. I am no one.

I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again.
--Big Bucket Wull

Would she never have a friend that she could trust?

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. Certain moths live their whole lives in a day, yet to them that little span of time must seem as long as years and decades do to us. An oak may live three hundred years, a redwood tree three thousand. To them seasons pass in the flutter of a moth's wing, and past, present, and future are one.
-Lord Brynden

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a tree understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.
--Lord Brynden

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
--Jojen

You have to wake right now, or you'll go dreaming into death.

He does not love me, will never love me, but he will make use of me. Well and good.

I am fat, and many think that makes me weak and foolish.
--Lord Wyman

I carry mine own sorrows with me, everywhere I go.

If you share your plans with no one, no one can betray you.
--Jaime Lannister

The night is dark and full of terrors, and so are dreams.

In this world the weak are always the victims of the strong.
--Cersei Lannister

The strong have always taken from the weak.
--Nute the Barber

Words are wind. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

I have a hole where my heart should be, and nowhere else to go.

All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it...though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
--The kindly man

Trust is earned. Like gold.
--Brienne