Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't. - David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul. - Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. - Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life. - Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary - be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out. - Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto Che Guevara

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know. - Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg

We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it! - Jeaniene Frost, At Grave's End

Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you. - Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. - Audrey Hepburn

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all. - William Goldman, The Princess Bride

You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead. - Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W.C. Fields

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial