When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. - Taylor Swift

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes. - John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. - Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. - Robert Owen

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. - Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”There was a brief pause. us! - Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? - Bill Watterson

Life is more fun if you play games. - Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop! - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul. - Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor - you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look. - Flannery O'Connor

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. - Jon Stewart

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love. - David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe. - Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart. - John Williams, Stoner