- "我既已經擁有生命，也一定會失去它。那我還有什麼理由不極度的愛它?" - 蔡康永 ＜給殘酷社會的善意短信>
- "最不必考慮省掉的錢，是買書。買錯了，看不進去，放著或者隨手送掉損掉就是。所花的金額，比一頓速食還要便宜。要是買對了，看得進去呢，一個靈感，一個提醒，一個觀點，都可以是人生一次轉彎的機會啊。" - 蔡康永 ＜給殘酷社會的善意短信>
- "You’ll understand why storms are named after people.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald <The Beautiful and Damned>
- "You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved." - Stewart O’Nan <The Odds: A Love Story>
- “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” - Kurt Vonnegut <The Sirens of Titan>
- “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.” - Kurt Vonnegut <The Sirens of Titan>
- "Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come." - Haruki Murakami <IQ84>
- "After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?" - Kazuo Ishiguro <The Remains of the Day>
- "All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." - <The Little Prince>
- "And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - Paulo Coelho <The Alchemist>
- "Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it as supposed to make you feel something." - Rainbow Rowell <Eleanor & Park>__
- "Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something." - Rainbow Rowell <Eleanor and Park>
- "At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too." - John Green <Paper Towns>
- "Because once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. " - Marilynne Robinson <Housekeeping>__
- "Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." - Terry Pratchett <A Hat Full of Sky>
- "Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it." - Haruki Murakami <Norwegian Wood>
- "Death is not the opposite of life, but an innate part of it." - Haruki Murakami <Norweigan Wood>
- "Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time." - Marie Lu <Legend>
- "Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "Everything that happens once can never happen again." - Paulo Coelho <The Alchemist>
- "Everything's uglier up close. - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it." - Ann Marie Macdonald <Fall On Your Knees>
- "Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it." - Ann Marie Macdonald <Fall On Your Knees> __
- "I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." - <The Little Prince>
- "If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else..But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals." - John Green <Paper Towns>
- "It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined." - John Green <Paper Towns>
- "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - <The Little Prince>
- "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." - <The Little Prince>
- "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho <The Alchemist>
- "Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more." - Jeanette Walls <The Glass Castle>
- "Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will." - John Green <Paper Towns>
- "Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of? Losing weight and looking like the poor." - Aravind Adiga <The White Tiger>
- "Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with... Ideas that matter to you, beliefs that you can stand by." - Zadie Smith <On Beauty>
- "Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with... ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by..." - Zadie Smith <On Beauty>
- "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." - <The Little Prince>
- "The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it." - Margo <Paper Towns>
- "The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy." - Djuna Barnes <Nightwood>
- "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho <The Alchemist>
- "Those who did not ever cry throughout the endless nights would never realize the essence of life." - 奈須蘑菇 <空の境界式 Ch3.痛覺殘留(1998)>
- "What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." - Quentin <Paper Town>
- "When you're scared but you still do it anyway. That's brave." - Neil Gaiman <Coraline>
- “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” ― Veronica Roth <Divergent>
- “But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” ― Milan Kundera <The Unbearable Lightness of Being>
- “There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation - purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?” - Djuna Barnes <Nightwood>
- 人死了，活著的人互相安慰，語言往往蒼白乏力，這是生命不能承受之痛。
- 有一種人，他說的每一句話都能輕易進駐靈魂深處
- 為了自己想過的生活，勇敢放棄一些東西。這個世界沒有公正之處，你也永遠得不到兩全之計。若要自由，就得犧牲安全。若要閑散，就不能獲得別人評價中的成就。若要愉悅，就無需計較身邊人給予的態度。若要前行，就得離開你現在停留的地方。 - 安妮寶貝 <清醒紀>
- 痛進心底是沒有眼淚的。
may 30 2012 ∞
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