One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open. - Forrest Curran

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second. - Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent. - Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. - Patrick Ness, More Than This

Love means never having to be apart - James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain. - Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening. - Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. - Tupac Shakur

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mahatma Gandhi

You have a very open relationship with your fans.Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers. - Neil Gaiman

All knowledge is worth having. - Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast. - Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know. - Richelle Mead, Frostbite

A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line. - Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending. - Chico Xavier

As your lover describes you, so you are. - Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

Procrastinate now, don't put it off. - Ellen DeGeneres

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King Jr.