Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. - Nelson DeMille, The General's Daughter

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. - Ernesto Che Guevara

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. - Maya Angelou

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. - Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

To those who will see, the world waits. - Libba Bray

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? - Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. - Banksy

Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else. - Leah Raeder, Unteachable

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment - Oprah Winfrey

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. - Alex Sanchez

Great Leaders Create More LeadersGood leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. - David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. - C. JoyBell C.

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto. - H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements. - Nicholas Sparks

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty. - Kelly White

What's that?That's my attack poodle. - Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds