"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one rare and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems: Volume One)

"The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

"Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas."
— J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die."
— John Donne

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)