- "Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you." —George R. R. Martin
- "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." —John Green
- "Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." —Sarah Kay
- "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." —J.D. Salinger
- "You either have the feeling or you don't." —Daniel Handler
- "The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you." —Markus Zusak
- "These guys are out of their minds. What the hell is 'novelistic sweep'? Real people don't use words like that. 'Today's sukiyaki was lacking in beefistic sweep.' Ever hear anybody say anything like that?" —Haruki Murakami
- "If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?" —Chuck Palahniuk
- “Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. 'No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.'” —Madeline Miller
- "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves." —Victor Hugo
- “When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.” —Michael Ondaatje
jan 11 2014 ∞
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