She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on... - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. - Osho

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. - John Green, Paper Towns

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. - Mark R. Levin

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours. - Diogenes of Sinope

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. - Jalaluddin Rumi

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. - Steven Wright

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so. - Tammara Webber, Easy

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. - Gina Barreca

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Get there early because hope does not park your mother-fucking car. - Jon Stewart

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. - Mae West

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. - Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl