- "We loved with a love that was more than love." - Edgar Allen Poe
- "Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, its not because they enjoy solitude. Its because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." - __Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
- "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." - Maya Angelou
- "All great and precious things are lonely." - _John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- "Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi
- "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one'." - C.S. Lewis
- "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain
- “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” - __Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- “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
- “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - A.A. Milne
- “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” - __Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
- “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” - __J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
- “It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.” - __Rachel Cohn, Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List
- “I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” - __John Green, Looking For Alaska
- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” - __Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath
- “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” - Neil Gaiman
- “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” - Neil Gaiman
- “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.” - Anaïs Nin
- “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” - Ray Bradbury
- "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." - __Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita
- "All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so." - __Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita
- "When you think you are in love, you don't want to think about the things that could end it." - __Luke Davies, Candy
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