There were no windows in my bedroom, so I had to sit up and read my clock to figure out how angry I should be at my visitor. Eight A.M. I hated whoever woke me up. Had they come an hour earlier, I would have also hated their families and any household pets. - Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

What should I say? ‘Well, the murder was a little upsetting, and the fire did worry me a bit. I was nearly date-raped and my ex best friend is crazy. But, hey, at least I’m making an A in History’? - C.J. Daugherty, Night School

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. - Drew Barrymore

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. - Cristina Marrero

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. - T.S. Eliot

True love is born from understanding. - Gautama Buddha

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet - Robert Browning

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it - it doesn't deserve you anyways.

Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that felt…. Free. “If what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why we’re … together,” he said. “I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome. - Rachel Caine, Ghost Town

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. - Jodi Picoult

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it. - E.M. Forster, Howards End

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. - E.E. Cummings

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity. - Ellen Schreiber, Vampire Kisses

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. - Joyce Carol Oates

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... - Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight