If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? - Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. - Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are. - C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) - J.M. Coetzee, Foe

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. - Bob Dylan

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows. They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary. - Joss Whedon

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters. - Audrey Hepburn

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? - Alan Moore, Watchmen

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. - Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket. - Kathryn Stockett, The Help

We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there - you're on your own.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too. - Holly Black

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that. - Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us - shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em? - Bill Watterson

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken. - Robert M. Drake

When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul? - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

All thinking men are atheists. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms