- "babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of god. lucky is the woman who has felt the pang of birth, for she has held a star." - larry barretto
- "you want the moon? say the word and i'll throw a lasso around it." - jimmy stewart
- "i was hiding under your porch because i love you." - dug
- "the sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - jacques yves cousteau
- "whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. if i am a princess in rags and tatters, i can be a princess inside. it would be easy to be a princess if i were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it." - frances hodgson burnett (a little princess)
- "and that's the best revenge of all, happiness. because nothing drives people crazy more than seeing someone have a good fucking life." - chuck palahniuk
- "..she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.." - miles, looking for alaska
- "i go to seek a Great Perhaps." - looking for alaska
- "there are no good girls gone bad, just bad girls found out." - mae west
- "you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - mae west
- "he who hesitates is a damn fool." - mae west
- "good girls go to heaven. bad girls go everywhere." - mae west
- "without love we are birds with broken wings."
- "at least i carpe'd that one diem." - margo roth speigleman (paper towns)
- "always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy." - kimora lee simmons
- "we read to know that we are not alone." - c.s. lewis
- "holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it of someone else: you are the one who gets burned." - buddha
- "there is more to life than increasing it's speed." - ghandi
- "strangers are friends you have yet to meet." -unknown
- "love does not obey our expectations, it obeys our intentions." - lloyd strom
- "the music we listen to may not define who we are, but it's a damn good start." - jodi picoult
- "if you're gonna be two faced at least make one of them pretty." - marilyn monroe
- "think less. live more." - unknown
- "happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - dumbledore
- "You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were ab mermaid, I was the sea." ~Francesca Lia Block
- "My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest since Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music?" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- "live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air." ralph waldo emerson
- "ever thine, ever mine, ever ours." - beethovem
- "i don't design clothes, i design dreams." - ralph lauren
- "the best things in life are free. the second best are expensive." - coco chanel
- "the only thing that seperates us from animals is our ability to accesorize." - clairee belcher (steel magnolias)
- "only open your mouth if what you have to say is more beautiful than silence." - arab proverb
- "you want weapons? we're in a library! books! the best weapons in a world!" - doctor who
- "destiny is for losers. it's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen." - blair waldorf
- "for every minute of sadness you loose 60 seconds of happiness." - ralph waldo emerson
- "whether you return by page or by big screen, hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." - j.k. rocwling at the deathly hallows part 2 premiere in london
- "i wanted to do something, anything. but i didn't know what to do. so i did this. this is my something." (good for the opening of a book)
- "unless it is mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it is a waste of time. there are too many mediocre things in life. love should not be one of them."
- "every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. it really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you're all stardust. you couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and life - weren't created at the beginning of time. they were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. so forget jesus. the stars died so that you could be here today." - laurence krauss
- "the shape of happiness might resemble glass. even though you don't usually notice it, its still definitely there. you merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. i doubt that anything else could argue its existence more eloquently." - lelouch lamperouge
- "be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - cecil beaton
- "don't do anything by half. if you love someone, love them with all your soul. when you go to work, work your ass off. when you hate someone, hate them until it hurts." - henry rollins
- "She had been born of the sea. Her fingernails were as glistening and uneven as mother of pearl and her eyes were ocean caves. On windy days she would lie on her back on her bed, her soft blond hair falling away in waves, and watch the trees dance through her window."
- "I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick." -Audrey Hepburn
- "By the time I was wishing I'd washed my hair this morning instead of just bathed and was practically doubled over with gratefulness that I'd at least brushed my teeth, out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body--my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light." - The Help, Kathryn Stockett, spoken by Skeeter
- "maybe.. you'll fall in love with me all over again." "hell," i said, "i love you enough now. what do you want to do? ruin me?" "yes, i want to ruin you." "good," i said, "that's all i want too." ernest hemingway, a farwell to arms
- "let us read and let us dance, these two amusements will never do any harm to the world." - voltaire
- "we learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school." - bruce springsteen, no surrender
- "so much to do, so little done, such things to be." - liz taylor
- "if you lie to anybody on the planet, don't lie to that person reflected in the mirror. always be able to meet your own eyes, and know that you're telling the truth." - betty white
- you can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - lewis carroll
- "life isn't divided into genres. it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel." - alan moore
- "We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams, And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams, The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore, For ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." - Michael Lille
- "“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” - Elias Canett
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