Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here. - Moira Young, Blood Red Road

Humor is also a way of saying something serious. - T.S. Eliot

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand. - Richard Siken, Crush

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell. - David Cook

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. - Joss Whedon

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.... - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. - Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the stairs. does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.“But why’s she got to go to the library?”“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! - Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. - Mae West

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy

Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too. - Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can. - Dan Howell

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing. - Lauren Oliver, Requiem

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When you can live forever what do you live for? - Stephenie Meyer

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. - Nikolai Gogol

Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves. - Marissa Meyer, Cress