- I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. - Jane Eyre
- It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Jane Eyre
- I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I will now exert to leave you. - Jane Eyre
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" - Jack Kerouac, On The Road
- When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." - Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5
- And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. - Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5
- I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- French is the language that turns dirt into romance. - Stephen King
- When I hear music, I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau
- People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. - Claude Monet
- Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. - Claude Monet
- Later, with inch-thick specs, / Evil was just my lark: / Me and my coat and fangs / Had ripping times in the dark. / The women I clubbed with sex! / I broke them up like meringues. - from Philip Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits"
- Liberate yourself from my vicelike grip! - Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
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- wholly to be a fool / while Spring is in the world - from e.e. cummings' "since feeling is first"
- Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. - Jane Bennett, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it - Mr. Darcy, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. - Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Is not general incivility the very essence of love? - Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? - Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. - from W.B. Yeats' "He wishes for the cloths of heaven"
- But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. - John, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- I would I were thy bird. - Romeo Montague, Shakepeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
- It's a good thing you're bulletproof. - Bella Swan, Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse
- We can't all be saints and martyrs. - Edward Cullen
- Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly, everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything. - Edward Cullen
- Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. - Hermione Granger
- I don't know where you learned about right and wrong, but you seem to have missed a few crucial lessons. - Mrs. Weasley
- To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - Albus Dumbledore
- It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - Albus Dumbledore
- Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. - Albus Dumbledore
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - Albus Dumbledore
- Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. - Albus Dumbledore
- Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. - Albus Dumbledore
- Time is making fools of us again. - Albus Dumbledore
- It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - Albus Dumbledore
- I've always had my suspicions that you were no mere mortal, but I never imagined you were actually... a cat. - Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Trigun
- Being in love is like having a prolonged stomach flu and, perversely, obstinately, insanely, never wanting to recover. - RJL, theshoeboxproject
- I have been charged with proper care of commas and, should I be feeling particularly daring, I am also given full control of my clandestine lover, the semicolon. But that appears only to happen Fridays, when everyone gets a little drunk on the weekend and on power, laughing hysterically and flinging punctuation about every which way. - RJL, theshoeboxproject
- Indecision may or may not be my problem. - Jimmy Buffet
- Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it. - Arthur Dent
- What is this? A center for ants?! - Derek Zoolander
- When I simultaneously graduated from Oxford, Cornell, and ITT Tech, I was young, dumb, and full of methamphetamines. - Caleb Bark
- I don't like you and you don't like me, so let's not mince words... I like you. - Caleb Bark
- I would wear a Cylon costume, but Cylons look like people, so, I am wearing a Cylon costume! - Adam Conover
- Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it. - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
- Congratulations, Universe. You win. - Jim Halpert
- Okay, just so I understand it: in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil. - Jim Halpert
- This is the opposite of shallow. This is emotionally magnificent. - Michael Scott
- Oh, I'm sorry. Is this a working office and not a French beach? - Jim Halpert
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