Garrick was panting when he replied, “You’re not forcing me to do anything. I just want you to be sure. You can say stop at anytime.” His lips pulled wide. “You don’t need to make up a new pet. - Cora Carmack, Losing It

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. - Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. - Bruce Lee

When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck

Living simply makes loving simple. - bell hooks

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 love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. - Emily Brontë

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. - John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. - Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love - Gabriel García Márquez

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. - John Green

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. - Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.. - Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Do your best and let God do the rest. - Ben Carson

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. - William Faulkner

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. - Pico Iyer

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar