• Dusk, I realized then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• "She has a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham
• "I quote others only the better to express myself." - Michel de Montaigne
• her intelligence hidden, behind years of self-doubt
• “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” – George Carlin
• “The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” - Milan Kundera, Ignorance
• For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. - Ecclesiastes 1:18
• In order to determine whether there is anything we can know with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know. - Rene Descartes
• She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there’d be no more needless conflicts. Instead, she had discovered that rather than magnifying the differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so people could get along even thought they really didn’t understand each other. - Orson Scott Card's Xenocide
• I look back over what I’ve written and I know it’s wrong, not because of what I’ve set down, but because of what I’ve omitted. What isn’t there has a presence, like the absence of light. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. - Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• I started to expect the worst in everything. I mean, isn’t it better that way? Then, even if the situation ends up hurting you, none of the wounds will be as deep. - Onodera Ritsu (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

How I Met Your Mother

• Sometimes, the tiniest trigger can unravel you and send you crawling right back. - Robin
• The future is scary, but you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar. Yes, it's tempting, but it's a mistake. - Robin
• Robin: Why am I constantly looking for reasons not to be happy? / Kevin: Maybe because the idea of finally being happy terrifies you.
• Barney: Come on, Ted, it's 2012! What do you expect -- to meet some cute travel agent, while you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore.

The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder

• Old people often seem to have more time than small children with their entire lives ahead of them.
• In choosing to live, you also choose to die.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

• We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
• You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom.
• “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.”
• gotta hunt for those lines again.