“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?” [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”