Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? - Dorothy Parker

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. - Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass. - Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment. - Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway. - Michael Summers, I Had a Dream About You

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam. - Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry. - Amit Kalantri

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do. - Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away. - Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. - Nelson DeMille, The General's Daughter

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on. - Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare. - Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance. - Tom Hiddleston

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

When I die, I want them to bury me facedown and ass up so that the whole world can kiss my ass! - Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. - Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates