• “You are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moments silence, "perhaps more so.”

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

• "The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards."

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

• “I gave Patrick On the Road, Naked Lunch, The Stranger, This Side of Paradise, Peter Pan, and A Separate Peace. I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Walden, and The Fountainhead. ”

―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• “we accept the love we think we deserve.”

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

―Marcus T. Cicero

• “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

―Mark Twain

• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

―Mahatma Gandhi

• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

―Oscar Wilde

• “All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.”

―J.R.R. Tolkien

• “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

―Pablo Neruda

• “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”

―William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well

• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

―Lao Tzu

• “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

―Albert Einstein

• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

―William Shakespeare “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

• “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

―Oscar Wilde

• “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

―Oscar Wilde

• “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

―William Shakespeare

• “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

―C.S. Lewis

• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

―Haruki Murakami

• “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

―Bill Cosby

• “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

―Aristotle

• “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

―Kurt Vonnegut

• “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

―Paulo Coelho

• “The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing.”

―Socrates

• “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

―C.S. Lewis

• “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

―Oscar Wilde

• “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

―H.G. Wells

• “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

―A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

• “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

―Oscar Wilde

• “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

―Albert Einstein

• “Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”

―Ayn Rand

• “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

―F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat’s shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”

―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

―Stanley Kubrick

• “If I asked my customers what they want, they simply would have said a faster horse.”

―Henry Ford

• “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby