“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you really are.”

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”

“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in