• "And all I loved, I loved alone"

Edgar Allen Poe

• "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restuarant, filled with waiters who bring you things you never asked for, and sometimes don't like"

Lemony Snicket

• "We made blueberry, buttermilk..and if you're feeling especially sinful, chocolate chip"

Seth Cohen, The OC

• "Vous au moins, vous ne risquez pas d'être un légume, puisque même un artichaut a du cœur." (At least you'll never be a vegetable — even artichokes have hearts.)

Amelie Poulain, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain

• "No one is free, even birds are chained to the sky"

Bob Dylan

• "When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons"

James Dean

• "Gomez, last night, you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again!"

Morticia, The Addams Family

• "High school is like the training wheels for the bicycle of real life. It is a time for young people to explore different fields of interest and to hopefully learn from their experiences. In coming to terms with my own personal setback, I've learned that I don't need to rely on drugs and alcohol, and that I'm very lucky that more people besides myself and Carrie weren't injured in the accident. And I've learned that to overcome life's obstacles you need faith, hope and, above all, a sense of humor."

Ghost World

• "Unfortunately we live in a society where they tell us we have to look a certain way, so we're all under pressure to live up to unrealistic expectations."

George Feeny, Boy Meets World

• "In films, we are trained by the American way of movie-making to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!"

Jean-Luc Godard

• "Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."

Lemony Snicket

• ""A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

Roald Dahl

• "I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps. I love how she makes me feel, like anything's possible, or like life is worth it."

Tom, (500) Days of Summer

• "I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can’t erase the strokes you’ve made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate."

Dianna Agron

• "I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again."

George Feeney, Boy Meets World

• "Look, other bands, they want to make it about sex or pain, but you know, The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right? That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand."

Thom, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Dr. Seuss

• "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."

Johnny Carson

• "Miss Stubbs: You seem to be old and wise. Jenny: I feel old. But not very wise."

An Education

• "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

G. K. Chesterton

• "There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand."

Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

• "People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good."

Edith Piaf