Hello, everyone! I thought I'd take a break from some of the serious topics surrounding our world and start to bring something brighter into the world. One day, my roommate, Eliza, had given me the suggestion for this piece and I was ecstatic. I sent out a call to action for all of my fellow bookworms and we put together a list of some of our favorite quotes ... because after all, "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic." - JK Rowling.

1. "Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate." - Sara Zarr's "The Lucy Variations"

2. "Stay Gold, Ponyboy." - S. E. Hinton's "The Outsiders."

3. "Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and aain. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them." - Diana Gabaldon's "Dragonfly in Amber"

4. "Happiness can be found even in the darkest times if one only remembers to turn on the light." - JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

5. "Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." - John Green's "Looking for Alaska"

6. "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?" - JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

7. "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." - Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

8. "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." - Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"

9. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." - Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five"

10. "It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn't the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn't we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?" - Graham Greene's "The Heart of the Matter"