Each time you happen to me all over again. - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. - Roy T. Bennett

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

Imagine others complexly. - John Green, Paper Towns

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature. - J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”“No!”“Me neither,” Leo admitted. - Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. - Brian Tracy

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control. - Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. - Tom Hiddleston

We all know we're going to die - what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. - Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. - Ayn Rand

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. - Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. - Steve Maraboli

I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor. - W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making - Reba McEntire

St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there. - Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After