"It's been a beautiful
fight

still
is."
-You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski

"'You could rattle the stars,' she whispered.  'You could do anything, if you only dared.  And deep down, you know it, too.  That's what scares you most.'"
-Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

"To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly."
-Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

"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.  This 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

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are.  They deserve respect.  If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."
-The Real Thing: A Play by Tom Stoppard

"Those years weren't lost.  They simply weren't the way I'd planned them."
-Letters by Kurt Vonnegut

"It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different.  They're not.  They're just variations of the same love, variations of the same desire to be close.  And like any love, it's difficult, awesome, treacherous, exhilarating, confusing - and precious."
-Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn