Quotes

Q is for quotes. I am considering making a wall of quotes in my new room. Also, I want to make a wall covered in an extremely long paper chain, but that's beside the point. Now, what more can I say about quotes, other than listing some of my favorites? Most of these are not "well-known" or "uplifting" quotes, just things I come across in reading or things that I identify with. I don't want this to be a whole long list of Harry Potter quotes though (I already have a word document devoted to that), so I will just throw in a few brief highlights:

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
--J.K. Rowling (Dumbledore)

“I lay there pretending to be asleep, as one does when one hopes to fall asleep. I was thinking about how weird it is that in order to actually sleep, you have to pretend that you are already asleep. You don’t get rich bye acting rich. You don’t grow breasts by wearing a bra. But you act as if you’re sleeping to fall asleep.”
--John Green (from the thisisnottom "story")

“I asked Sigurd if he knew about the man in America who changed his name to Penguin because he was so obsessed with them. But I forgot to speak aloud, so Sigurd didn’t answer. Obviously.”
--The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

"If it moves, it’s biology. If it smells, it’s chemistry. If it doesn’t work…it’s physics."

"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,
Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow."
--J.K. Rowling (Ron)

"While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind."

I am extremely attracted to hands. Particularly seeing big, masculine hands do gentle things, like untangle knots. Perhaps it's because men are unaware that girls are checking out their hands, so they can't put on a show about them, or primp them in some annoying, unattractive way. Hands are just natural and unpretentious.
--Hayley G. Hoover's blog

"Live in each season as it passes;
breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit."
--Henry David Thoreau

"What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does."
--J.K. Rowling (Hagrid)