• “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

• “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

• “Terror made me cruel . . .”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

• “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”

― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

― William Wordsworth

• “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

― Maya Angelou

• “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

• “You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

• “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay