...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. - Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way - Ali Shariati

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. - Allen Ginsberg

You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lord St.Vincent.”“There’s a surprise,” he said dryly.“But for some reason,” she continued, “I never want to kiss him the way I do you.” It was a good thing that she had closed her eyes, for if she had seen his expression, she might not have continued. “There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it’s because you’re so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. - Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

If I must fall, may it be from a high place. - Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes - Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! - C. JoyBell C.

You wanna go build some shelves with me? - Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. - Earl Nightingale

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. - G.K. Chesterton

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. - Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise. - Anne Fortier, Juliet

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. - Alan W. Watts

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. - P.G. Wodehouse

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. - Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Aim higher in case you fall short. - Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. - Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life. - Hank Moody, God Hates Us All

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson