I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. - John Green, Looking for Alaska

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none. - Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF! - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Love never dies. - Lauren Kate, Torment

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here. - Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it. - Lady Gaga

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. —T-SHIRT - Darynda Jones, Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity. - Alysha Speer

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. - Kahlil Gibran, Visions of the Prophet

Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen. - Rita Davenport

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal. - Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. - Mark Twain

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you - Erykah Badu

You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long. - Rachel Vincent, Before I Wake

Men don’t realize that if we’re sleeping with them on the first date, we’re probably not interested in seeing them again either. - Chelsea Handler

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught. - Gordon B. Hinckley

i like my body when it is with yourbody. It is so quite new a thing.Muscles better and nerves more.i like your body. i like what it does,i like its hows. i like to feel the spineof your body and its bones, and the trembling-firm-smooth ness and which i willagain and again and againkiss, i like kissing this and that of you,i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzzof your electric fur, and what-is-it comesover parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,and possibly i like the thrillof under me you so quite new. - E.E. Cummings