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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” | Steve Maraboli, |
“Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” | Albert Einstein |
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” | Martin Luther King Jr., |
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?” | Audrey Niffenegger, |
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” | Marjorie Pay Hinckley |
“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.” | Marilyn Monroe |
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” | Lao Tzu |
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” | Carl Sagan, |
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” | Terry Pratchett, |
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...” | Umberto Eco, |
“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” | Christopher Paolini |
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.” | jonathan safran foer |
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” | J.M. Barrie, |
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” | Charles Dickens, |
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” | Nelson Mandela |
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” | Louise Erdrich, |
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” | Haruki Murakami |
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.” | Stephen King |
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” | Anais Nin |
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” | Abigail Van Buren |
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” | Friedrich Nietzsche |
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” | maya angelou |
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” | Dale Carnegie, |
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.” | C. JoyBell C. |
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” | Sylvia Plath, |
“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.” | Bill Watterson |
“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.” | Veronica Roth, |
“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,” | Cassandra Clare, |
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.” | Alan Bennett, |
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.” | Jasper Fforde, |
“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.” | J.R. Ward, |
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” | Alyson Noel, |
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” | Charles Baudelaire, |
“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked."If I did?""I don't like it."He grinned. "It stays, Angel.” | Becca Fitzpatrick, |
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” | Edith Sitwell |
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” | Stephen Chbosky, |
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” | John Lennon |
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” | Madeleine L'Engle |
“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” | Jimi Hendrix, |
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” | Jane Austen, |
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” | Herbert Bayard Swope |
“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?""I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?” | Cassandra Clare, |
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.” | Albert Einstein |
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” | Marilyn Monroe |
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” | Plato |
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” | Rainbow Rowell, |
“If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” | Chad Sugg, |
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” | George Carlin, |
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” | Ray Bradbury, |
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” | Mortimer J. Adler |
“Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...” | J.K. Rowling, |
“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” | Douglas Adams, |
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” | Leonardo da Vinci |
“Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon."No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,"You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.” | Hafiz |
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.” | Ally Condie, |
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” | Aldous Huxley, |
“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.” | Sarah Dessen, |
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” | C.S. Lewis, |
“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” | Deborah Reber, |
“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” | Jay Asher, |
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” | Gandhi |
“It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” | Astrid Lindgren |
“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.” | Stephenie Meyer, |
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” | Rebecca West |
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ” | Michael Crichton |
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ” | Joss Whedon |
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.” | Neil Gaiman |
“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” | Oprah Winfrey |
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” | Charlotte Brontë, |
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni |
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” | Ellen DeGeneres |
“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane” | Rachel Caine, |
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” | Napoleon Hill, |
“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” | Bill Watterson, |
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” | Helen Keller |
“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” | Mark Twain |
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” | Ursula K. Le Guin, |
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ” | Haruki Murakami, |
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” | Jane Austen, |
“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.” | Rodney Dangerfield |
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” | J. K. Rowling, |
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” | Dodie Smith, |
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” | George Orwell, |
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” | Stephen Chbosky, |
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” | Neil Gaiman, |
“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” | Pittacus Lore, |
“You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible” | Simone Elkeles, |
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” | Oscar Wilde, |