- "Why would God make a world so imperfect that it must be continually righting itself?" ~ Lighthousekeeping, J. Winterson (in reference to evolution)
- It's better to think of my life like that-- part miracle, part madness. It's better if I accept that I can't control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwrecks; then another boat, another tide." ~ Lighthousekeeping, J. Winterson
- "Isn't that always the case? Dull girls charmed by books?" Yonalisee Riding Camp for Girls
- "Happiness is like cake; you have too much of it and you get sick of it." - dumbed down Othello
- "Rome fell silently to ruins. A New city rose in its place, and it was too erased by emptiness. Like phantom Giants, cities, kingdoms, and countries swiftly fell and disappeared into emptiness-- swallowed up in the black maw of the Infinite" - Lazarus
- "Until you take a chance, you never know who you truly are." - ?
- "I do not like Christians. They shake the tree of life, forbidding it to bear fruit, and they scatter to the wind it's fragrant blossoms." - Lazarus
- "It doesnt matter what we’ve done, or how we will be remembered, because we are all just specks who will just be forgotten. All that matters is here, right now, this moment, that we are sharing together." - BoJack Horseman
- “It always rains on your birthday and yet nobody ever gives you an umbrella.” - ?
- "Some people are bipolar. I'm just polar." ~ The Crazy School, Carnelia Read
- "In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." ~ Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, Hunter S. Thomas
- "Time is long, death is patient, and the ghosts will always outlive the grieving." ~ Cathy's Key
- "We are all animals. We're born them and we break like them and that's the truth at the bottom of things. We think we're special because we have produced Rambrant and Pop-tarts and infomercials, but death is our real common heritage." ~ Cathy's Key
- "Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on the door at odd hours and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence: your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling night of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend to not recognize you." ~ City of Thieves, David Benioff
- "Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic?--You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself over the question of whether or not there's a dog." ~ Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- "My life hasn't been crazy, it's just life that is crazy." ~ Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside, looking for a way to break in." ~ Lighthousekeeping, J. Winterson
- "Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time." ~ City of Thieves, David Benioff
- "Of course I'm ill, I'm alive, aren't I?" ~ Generosity, Richard Powers
- "...Because love is confusing and strange and difficult and uncomfortable and unbelievable inconvenient. But above all, love is transcendent." ~ Choke, Chuck Palanuik
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