Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. - Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzsche

I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn’t alone anymore. - Colleen Houck

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. - Santosh Kalwar

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved. - Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. - Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

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

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me. - W.H. Auden

I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless. - Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

You are always a little bit wrong - Hank Green

What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me. - Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. - Michael Grant, Gone

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof? - Steven Wright

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. - Ilyas Kassam

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on. - Yann Martel, Life of Pi

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love. - David Levithan, Every Day

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. - Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

The function of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. - John F. Kennedy