"For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is.  Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life.  Stop waiting.  That is it:  there's nothing else.  It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."
-The Magicians by Lev Grossman

"For if we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago."
-Seneca

"I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced.  I just want so desperately to hang on to what I have."
-The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder

"You will go in to tea, my girl - and a much better tea than you would have come by this time last year." 
-I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith