"I think the biggest thing to know is things aren't as bad as they seem. Your boyfriend seems like the last one you'll ever have and the love of your life; your friends and their drama seem so important -- but it's not."
-Leighton Meester (on high school)
"I want to do so many things, and maybe someday, a lot of it will be impossible. But right now, I don't see the impossible."
-Leighton Meester
"I really came to realize -- and it's the best advice that will come out at the end of this show -- that high school is not the end, it is not the best, it is not the only. You will have a whole life afterward, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, then the only thing you'll ever feel is how fun it was at your prom."
-Leighton Meester
"I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends."
-Leighton Meester
"Humor was a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run away. Over and over."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"'The winter solstice,' Chiron spoke up, 'is also the time of greatest darkness. The gods gather that day, as mortals always have, because there is strength in numbers. The solstice is a day when evil magic is strong. Ancient magic, older than the gods. It's a day when things ... stir.'"
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"When monsters no longer stay in Tartarus, and souls are no longer confined to Hades ... Olympus has good reason to fear."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"It would be madness to oppose her. You would be better staying here as frozen statues."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"Most problems look worse than they are, mijo. Nothing is unfixable."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"He hated feeling like a reject. Jason and Piper got to visit the throne room. Leo got to wait in the lobby with Cal, the demigod of hockey and major head injuries."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"He felt like a broken machine himself -- like someone had removed one little part of him, and now he'd never be complete. He might move, he might talk, he might keep going and do his job. But he'd always be off balance, never calibrated exactly right."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"You see possibilities much more vividly than others. You see what could be. And it still might be. Don't give up."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"Beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself -- avoiding trying to be something you're not."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"Thalia gripped her brother's hand. 'How do you feel?' 'Hot,' he muttered. "Mouth is dry. And I saw something ... really terrible.' 'That was Hera,' Thalia grumbled. 'Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.' 'That's it, Thalia Grace,' said the goddess. 'I will turn you into an aardvark, so help me ..."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"She didn't push him. If he wanted to talk, that was fine, but she knew him better than to press the subject. She didn't even worry that her knowledge of him was mostly based on three months of false memories. 'You can sense possibilities,' her mother had said. And Piper was determined to make those possibilities a reality."
-The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
"There are a lot more differences than similarities between Chuck and me. When I was 17, I had certain characteristics of Chuck's but obviously, the context we different. I didn't come from the Upper East Side and I didn't have the same desires. Oh, and I didn't have a string of lovers. I was a good boy."
-Ed Westwick
"I'm a night time kind of guy, so I love going out. I always sense potential in the night."
-Ed Westwick
"My brother and I had a band, Fangs of Fury, for about five minutes [when he was six years old]. I just sat and watched him. So we were at two-men band, with one man doing something."
-Ed Westwick
"I like the glamorous indie rock look, like the Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm."
-Ed Westwick
"I'm childish at times, passionate, a little crazy, I guess. And I pride myself on being one of the last romantics."
-Ed Westwick
"I can't win. I freak out because I can't be fake and pretend like she's not a crazy person, and then I end up looking like the crazy person."
-from L.A. Candy: Sugar and Spice (Book 3) by Lauren Conrad
"He loved the feeling that anything was possible in this city, as long as you had the brains and the energy and the sheer, unapologetic gall to invent it. Or to invent yourself."
-from L.A. Candy: Sugar and Spice (Book 3) by Lauren Conrad
"Here they were, almost two years later. Everything had changed ... and yet, in this moment, it felt like everything was still the same."
-from L.A. Candy: Sugar and Spice (Book 3) by Lauren Conrad
"See, Janie, there are two types of guys who won't commit. The first type avoids relationships until he falls in love for real, and then he's yours forever. The second type avoid relationships, period. That's the type you want to stay far away from. The question is, which type is Braden?"
-from L.A. Candy: Sugar and Spice (Book 3) by Lauren Conrad
"It doesn't do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live."
-from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (The Movie)
"Scars can come in handy. I have one myself about my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
(This is from the placard outside Gringotts)
Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers bleak,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise or Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin,
You'll make your real friend,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking cap!
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
The Sorting Hat Poem
"Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one. Privately, Harry felt she'd had good reason, because Neville managed to have an extraordinary amount of accidents even with both feet on the ground."
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
"'It is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn,' said Firenze. 'Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself, and you have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.'"
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows. I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you. Madam Pomfrey, however, though ti might not be very hygienic and confiscated it."
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
"You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all -- the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
-from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Year 1) by J.K. Rowling
