The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live - Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. - Spider Robinson, Off the Wall at Callahan's

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. - Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. - Paul McCartney

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it. - Colleen Hoover, Maybe Not

No one is ever satisfied where he is. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength. - Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.”“Don’t make me angry-kiss you.”“Give me the laundry.”“Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens. - Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy. - Kelly Epperson

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. - Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. - Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here - Deborah Cox

Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her. - Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. - Madeleine K. Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir

Everything stinks till it’s finished. - Dr. Seuss

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway