“What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us”
“One of our favorite sayings is: "Fear is vividly imagining exactly what you don't want to happen, happening.”
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
“What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?”Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.”Say what?”We burn them.”The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said”
“to mature or grow up, is not in what you do, or what you say, but in how you imagine”
“I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.”