“Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”