Sarah Williams

• Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

T.S. Eliot

• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

J.R.R. Tolkein

• all that is gold does not glitter/ not all those who wander are lost

Roald Dahl

• we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams
• flying past the stars on silver wings
• And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
• So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Edna O'Brien, Sister Imelda

• In our deepest moments, we say the most inadequate things.

Betsey Johnson

• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

John Green, Looking For Alaska

• I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
• "Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it 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."
• She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, "You never get me. That's the whole point."
• "Sorry. Don't worry, dude," he said. "God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will."
• The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
• "Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war."
• Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

Steven Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

• Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
• And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity."

Winston Churchill

• You will make all kinds of mistakes: but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
• "It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Neil Gaiman

• Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Anais Nin

• The paradise of her childhood had been in books.

George Bernard Shaw

• Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

• There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

John Green, Paper Towns

• What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.
• "We bring the fucking rain."
• "Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. it's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."
• It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.
• “It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
• "Forever is composed of nows."
• "I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."