• Nora Ephron from "Heartburn": “Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
• Lenny Bruce quotes! Listen more to Lenny Bruce: If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

"To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him…This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love this way. That no one could ever have loved us so before us. And that no one will ever love in the same way after us" - Goethe

• "If you know not how to love, do not talk about it; 'Love,' this single word, is too profound to comprehend. If indeed you have fully comprehended it, call yourself a lover; you have no reason to be ashamed." (I had this one saved for a long time but forgot where it came from! It is from the Chinese story "Tu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger")
• "Love in such a way that the other feels free." - Thich Nhat Hanh
• “She loved me because she liked the light in my eyes, not because she was my flesh but because in my veins there was something of her - something restless and yearning that wanted to belong and also to be free” (63) (I can't remember which book this is from! It was def from Memoir in Africa class!) - Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang
• "Dear old world...you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you" - Anne of Green Gables
• "I thought of myself hanging in the store, as a mote imprisoned on a shaft of sunlight. Pushed and pulled by the slightest shift of air, but never falling free into the tempting darkness" - Maya Angelou
• "How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me" - Zora Neale Hurston
• "I have a weakness for charming men who make witty comebacks" - Roxane Gay (Difficult Women)
• "Let’s be realistic, let’s attempt the impossible" - Nico's Che Guevara poster in Germany
• "Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight" - F Scott Fitzgerald
• "What she liked was simply life" - Virginia Woolf
• "I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve" - Jane Austen