There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer. - Pete Hamill

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! - Karl Marx

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes. - Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.. - Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. - Nora Ephron

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. - W. Somerset Maugham

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger.Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. - Jackie Collins, Lucky

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. - Kahlil Gibran

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter. - Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are! - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. - Lemony Snicket

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

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. - Eric Roth

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. - Shannon Hale, The Actor and the Housewife

Dear God in heaven.” Nik and Ban turned away, but Alek stood. Transfixed. “My God, y’all. She’s the worst goddamn dancer I’ve ever seen.” “Turn away. It’ll hurt your eyes. Turn away! - Shelly Laurenston, Here Kitty, Kitty!

Don't count your owls before they are delivered. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You know on TV when there’s one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the crickets in the background?Well chirp fucking chirp...this is one of those moments. - Emma Chase, Tangled

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it. - J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation