This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice. - James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave. - Jim Butcher, Skin Game

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. - James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest. - Louise Candlish, Before We Say Goodbye

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy. - Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break. - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of. - Colleen Houck

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert

Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. - Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. - Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on... - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. - W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now. - Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie