If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU... - Robert Holden

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. - John Lennon

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere - Helen Gurley Brown

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for. - Richard Siken

Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly? - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face. - Meg Cabot, Shadowland

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. - Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex.At least you know he's still available. - Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow. - Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

Hope springs forever. - J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The wise warrior avoids the battle. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though. - Rachel Vincent, Rogue

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion - Simone de Beauvoir

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. - Randall Munroe, xkcd: volume 0

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go - Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency