If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. - T.H. White, The Once and Future King

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down. - Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing. - Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves. - Ja A. Jahannes, WordSong Poets

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. - Sam Levenson

Immature poets imitate - mature poets steal.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Marvin Gaye

I can't set my hopes too high,'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye. - Demi Lovato

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag. - Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

You have a... remarkable memory.I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am. - P.C. Cast, Destined

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. - David Nicholls, One Day

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. - K.L. Toth

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own. - Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I change the world, the world changes me. - Libba Bray

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army.That's SO not the point! - Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.”Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees. Voicemail #3: “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! I find all these old expressions unnecessarily violent. Like, ring around the rosy. That’s about the plague, did you know? Of course you did. The plague is, like, your older cousin. Hey, does Sam talk to you? He says jack shit to me. God, I’m bored. Call me.”Voicemail #4: “Hotel California” by the Eagles, in its entirety, with every instance of the word California replaced with Minnesota. Voicemail #5: “Hi, this is Cole St. Clair. Want to know two true things? One, you’re never picking up this phone. Two, I’m never going to stop leaving long messages. It’s like therapy. Gotta talk to someone. Hey, you know what I figured out today? Victor’s dead. I figured it out yesterday, too. Every day I figure it out again. I don’t know what I’m doing here. I feel like there’s no one I can —”Voicemail #6: “So, yeah, I’m sorry. That last message went a little pear-shaped. You like that expression? Sam said it the other day. Hey, try this theory on for size: I think he’s a dead British housewife reincarnated into a Beatle’s body. You know, I used to know this band that put on fake British accents for their shows. Boy, did they suck, aside from being assholes. I can’t remember their name now. I’m either getting senile or I’ve done enough to my brain that stuff’s falling out. Not so fair of me to make this one-sided, is it? I’m always talking about myself in these things. So, how are you, Isabel Rosemary Culpeper? Smile lately? Hot Toddies. That was the name of the band. The Hot Toddies.”Voicemail #20: “I wish you’d answer. - Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. - Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing - Thucydides

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like. - Andrea Gibson