Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. - John Cheever

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

My rapier wit hides my inner pain. - Cassandra Clare

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Love was the most savage monster of all. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. - Ellen DeGeneres

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. - John F. Kennedy

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. - John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. - Og Mandino

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. - Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. - Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: love me still more.When rage fills you and has no name: love me.When each step from your door to our job tires you--love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.Love me when you're bored--when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,or more pathetic, love me as you always have:not as admirer or judge, but withthe compassion you save for yourselfin your solitude.Love me as you relish your loneliness,the anticipation of your death,mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--and if there is none to recall--imagine one, place me there with you.Love me withered as you loved me new.Love me as if I were forever--and I, will make the impossiblea simple act,by loving you, loving you as I do - Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible

I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally. - Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colin. Need I say more? - Chris Rock

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing. - Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. - Edward Verrall Lucas

The planet is fine. The people are fucked. - George Carlin