What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? - Charles M. Schulz

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft. - Kathryn Stockett, The Help

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money. - Graham Parke, Unspent Time

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. - Steve Maraboli

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements. - Nicholas Sparks

Shuck it,” Minho responded. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.” Thomas shrugged. “I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now. - James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world - there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. - Cheryl Lacey Donovan, The Ministry of Motherhood

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

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US! - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. - Veronica Roth, Divergent

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. - Harvey Pekar

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. - Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is pressedAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all dayAnd lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree. - Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be... - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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