If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon

One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass. - Maureen Medved, The Tracey Fragments

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life - don't make it wait any longer.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. - Steven Moffat

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. - Alain de Botton

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone. - Josh Groban

We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn - Michael Grant, Lies

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. - Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. - Alex Gaskarth

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky. - Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. - Rick Riordan

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him! - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. - Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear. - Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

We all know interspecies romance is weird. - Tim Burton

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. - Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole. - Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration