Monkeys can't talk, stupid! - Jeff Kinney, Rodrick Rules

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. - Max Planck, Where is Science Going?

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. - Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. - Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. - Walt Disney Company, Cinderella

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent. - Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last. - Sarah Dessen

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours - James Patterson, Max

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.-Jeremy Malory- - Johanna Lindsey, A Loving Scoundrel

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas. - P.C. Cast, Chosen

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. - Epictetus

Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more. - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda) - Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Pleasures

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. - Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for. - Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. - Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

I change the world, the world changes me. - Libba Bray