"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

"Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

"I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. "
— Scott Westerfeld

"“I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.”"
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. "
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

"Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

"And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

"I intend to scream, shout, race the engine, call when I feel like it, throw tantrums in Bloomingdale's if I feel like it and confess intimate details about my life to complete strangers. I intend to do what I want to do and be whom I want to be and answer only to myself: that is, quite simply, the bitch philosophy..."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women)

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck

"Anything that just costs money is cheap."
— John Steinbeck

"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it."
— John Steinbeck

"Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

"Intention, good or bad, is not enough."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

"Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. "
— Darren Shan (Sons of Destiny)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

"None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?"
— Anne Rice

"Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer."
— Anne Rice

"One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before."
— Anne Rice (Pandora)

"...And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have."
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

"If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-'"
— Anne Rice (Blood Canticle)

"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."
— Anne Rice

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

"An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards."
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

"'You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.'"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

"People, generally, suck."
— Christopher Moore

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.-Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Zarek"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

"Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of
warm earth. Suicide weather."
— Susanna Kaysen

"Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy."
— Susanna Kaysen

"When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt."
— Ellen Hopkins (Glass)

""Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway." - Jason Schuyler"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from."
— Glen Duncan

"Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death"
— Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Bloods)

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
— Tim Burton

"The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets."
— Poppy Z. Brite

"Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)