The Princess Andromeda?Went ka-boom. - Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North! - C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Augustine of Hippo

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. - Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. - Ovid

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. - Patrick Rothfuss

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! - Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more. - Heather Hepler

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. - Michael Collins

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

You are stronger than you know. - Lori Osterman

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life. - Omar Khayyám