"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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"'You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?'
'I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him.'
'That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, "Why are bats furry?"'
'I will. You just wait.' "
— Kelley Armstrong (Haunted)

"The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist?

Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport."
— Kelley Armstrong (Bitten)

"Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance. (Men of the Otherworld)"
— Kelley Armstrong (Men of the Otherworld)

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
— Agatha Christie

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
— Agatha Christie

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— Agatha Christie

"I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers."
— Terry Goodkind

"So you do believe in... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere."
— Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)

"'If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words. "
— Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)

"All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness."
— Juliet Marillier (Daughter of the Forest)