Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney Company

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. - Maya Angelou

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic. - Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. - Robert Half

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King Jr.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns. - Stephen Colbert, I Am America

I love you more than I think I should. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. - Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

Wise men speak because they have something to say - fools because they have to say something.

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you! - Plato

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. - Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. - Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know. - Richelle Mead, Frostbite

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own. - Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out. - Gayle Forman, If I Stay

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities