All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist. - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. - Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again. - Kristin Cashore, Fire

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. - Karen Kingsbury

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.She was splintered wood and sea water.They said she reminded them of the war.On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense.You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty.You are her mother.Why did you not warn her,hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents,if her teeth are small colonies,if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders?What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot,her hands are a civil war,a refugee camp behind each ear,a body littered with ugly thingsbut God, doesn’t she wearthe world well. - Warsan Shire

I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. - Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever - Dave Matthews Band

I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me. - Andy Weir, The Martian

Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. - Annie Dillard

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse. - Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emil M. Cioran

I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive. - Nicki Minaj

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.After they were gone?That was all you thought about.Day and night. - J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. - Taylor Swift

Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it. - Alysha Speer, Sharden

The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid. - Larissa Ione, Desire Unchained

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality - Emily Dickinson

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. - Joseph Conrad