• "when i was a little girl i used to read fairy tales. in fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. in fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. the bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. you realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."

— Taylor Swift

• "if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"

— Lewis Caroll

• "What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."

— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

• "Don't go to bed yet, love, I think it's too early, and we just need a little time to ourselves"

— Go Radio (Goodnight Moon)

• "Summer night--

even the stars are whispering to each other." — Kobayashi Issa

• "Who said nights were for sleep?"

— Marilyn Monroe

• "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth." — William W. Purkey

• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

— Anaïs Nin

• "Lovers alone wear sunlight."

— E.E. Cummings

• "Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

— Anaïs Nin

• "Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."

— John Wayne

• "Everything you can imagine is real."

— Pablo Picasso

• "When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

— William Least Heat Moon (Blue Highways)