"To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this."
— Maureen Johnson

"(in transformers) "if the sun blew up its would be dark forever"
My response
"No it wouldnt we still have to moon DUH!!!"
— Morgan Foley

"What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it."
— Sarah Dessen

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine.
"Put your clothes in for a wash," he said. "They were disgusting."
Ginny always thought that the only way of getting clothes clean was by drowning them in scalding water and then whipping them around in a violent centrifugal motion that caused the entire washing machine to vibrate and the floor to shake. You beat them clean. You made them suffer. This machine used about half a cup of water and was about as violent as a toaster, plus it stopped every few minutes, as if it were exhausted from the effort of turning itself.
Sluff, sluff, sluff sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest.
Click.
Sluff, sluff, sluff, sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest.
"Who thought to put a window on a washing machine?" Keith asked. "Does anyone just sit and watch their wash?"
"You mean, besides us?"
"Well," he said, "yeah. Is there any coffee?""
— Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes)

"She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H.
Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All""
— Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha..."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"As you wish."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size."
— Maureen Johnson (Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories)

"Rule #1: You may bring only what fits in your backpack. Don’t try to fake it with a purse or a carry-on.

Rule #2: You may not bring guidebooks, phrase books, or any kind of foreign language aid. And no journals.

Rule #3: You cannot bring extra money or credit/debit cards, travelers’ checks, etc. I’ll take care of all that.

Rule #4: No electronic crutches. This means no laptop, no cell phone, no music, and no camera. You can’t call home or communicate with people in the U.S. by Internet or telephone. Postcards and letters are acceptable and encouraged.

That’s all you need to know for now. "
— Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes)

"You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!"
— Lauren Myracle (ttfn)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preperation, hard work, and leaning from failure. "
— General Colin Powell

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. "
— Source Unknown

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. "
— Chinese Proverb

"I hear, I forget. I see, I remember, I do, I understand. "
— Chinese Proverb

"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. "
— Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know."
— Janette Rallison (Just One Wish)