• alaska young (looking for alaska)

“you spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. you just use the future to escape the present.”

• anais watterson (the amazing world of gumball)

"by analyzing the dream, we can resolve the real-life problem."

• andy sachs (the devil wears prada)

"learned a lot. in the end, though, i kind of screwed it up."

• annabeth chase (percy jackson series)

"even strength has to bow down to wisdom, sometimes."

• blair waldorf (gossip girl)

"destiny is for losers. it's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen."

• caitlin snow (the flash)

"being a superhero isn't always about how fast you can run, it's about helping however you can, wherever you're needed most."

• charlie (the perks of being a wallflower)

"so, i guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. and maybe we'll never know most of them. but even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. we can still do things. and we can try to feel okay about them."

• daniel atlas (now you see me)

"the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see."

• edmund pevensie (the chronicles of narnia)

"there was a frightful roar and something hit me with a bang, but it didn't hurt. and i felt not so much scared as - well, excited."

• emma morley (one day)

"live each day as if it's your last. cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and full and well. experience new things. love and be loved, if you ever get the chance."

• fitzwilliam darcy (pride and prejudice)

"in vain i have struggled, it will not do. you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you."

• gandalf (lord of the rings series)

"some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what i have found. it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. small acts of kindness and love."

• gregory house (house m.d.)

"my need to be right comes before my need for self-preservation."

• hannah baker (13 reasons why)

"and at some point, the struggle becomes too much, too tiring, and you consider letting go, allowing tragedy or whatever to happen."

• hercule poirot (agatha christie's character)

"instinct is a marvelous thing. it can neither be explained nor ignored."

• james moriarty (sherlock)

"i'm so changeable. it is a weakness with me, but to be fair to myself, it is my only weakness."

• jubilee dougal (let it snow)

"i know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you won't be able to concentrate on anything else i will tell you."

• katniss everdeen (the hunger games series)

"the damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. that's how they recognize me, why i belong to them."

• klaus mikaelson (the vampire diaries & the originals)

"the line between what brings us pain and what sustains us is thinner than you'd imagine."

• laurel lance (arrow)

"our feelings... our fear, they control us, it's not the other way around."

• lia overbrook (wintergirls)

“there is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. there are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”

• luna lovegood (harry potter series)

"the things we lose always come back to us in unexpected ways."

• mia hall (if i stay)

"isn't it amazing how life is one thing, and then, in an instant, it becomes something else?"

• mordecai (regular show)

"you can't touch music. music touches you."

• natasha romanoff (marvel comics)

"i find that it's easier to keep your true self buried under several layers of untrue selves, to protect yourself."

• rachel sexton (deception point)

“do you dodge bullets as well as you dodge questions?”

• samantha borgens (stuck in love)

"just avoid love at all costs. that's my motto."

• sherlock holmes (sherlock)

"when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

• spencer hastings (pretty little liars)

"why enjoy today when you could be worrying about tomorrow?"

• starfire (teen titans)

"there will always be people who say mean words because you are different, and sometimes their minds cannot be changed. but there are much more people who do not judge others based on how they look or where they are from. those are the people whose words truly matter."

• summer finn (500 days of summer)

"i like being on my own. relationships are messy and people's feelings get hurt."

• tony stark (marvel comics)

"sometimes you gotta run before you can walk."

• uriah pedrad (divergent series)

"i don't know. i'm not sure anywhere will feel like home again. not even if we went back."

• david levithan's will grayson (will grayson, will grayson)

"i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time."

• willy wonka (charlie and the chocolate factory)

"there is no life i know to compare with pure imagination. living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be."