I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. - Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story. - Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear. - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I'm going to look like I'm walking around with an enormous load in my pants. - Meg Cabot, Big Boned

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way - Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor

Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.'Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right?Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?'Don't be silly. You have a tank, right? - Dave Barry

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew. - Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. - Augustine of Hippo

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. - Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. - Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. - Shannon L. Alder

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. - Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up. - George Carlin