Everybody's damaged by something. - Emma Donoghue, Room

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between literally and figuratively. If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. - Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. - Woody Allen

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? - Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself. - Zoe Sugg

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. - Albert Pike

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go. - Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

What I cannot love, I overlook. - Anaïs Nin

I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on. - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. - Sakyong Mipham

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. - Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. - Lana Del Rey

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. - Jane Austen, Persuasion

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in - forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick - Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. - John Updike, Rabbit, Run

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. - Criss Jami, Killosophy

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. - John Bytheway

Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart