"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of the not-entirely-false model, imagine the first interpreter as a foreign correspondent, reporting from the world. The world in this case means everything out- or inside our bodies, including serotonin levels in the brain. The second interpreter is a news analyst, who writes op-ed pieces. They read each other's work. One needs data, the other needs an overview; they influence each other. They get dialogues going.

INTERPRETER ONE: Pain in the left foot, back of heel.
INTERPRETER TWO: I believe that's because the shoe is too tight.
INTERPRETER ONE: Checked that. Took off the shoe. Foot still hurts.
INTERPRETER TWO: Did you look at it?
INTERPRETER ONE: Looking. It's red.
INTERPRETER TWO: No blood?
INTERPRETER ONE: Nope.
INTERPRETER TWO: Forget about it.
INTERPRETER ONE: Okay.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

An exemplary piece of confusion.

INTERPRETER ONE: There's a tiger in the corner.
INTERPRETER TWO: No, that's not a tiger- that's a bureau.
INTERPRETER ONE: It's a tiger, it's a tiger!
INTERPRETER TWO: Don't be ridiculous. Let's go look at it.

Then all the dendrites and neurons and serotonin levels and interpreters collect themselves and trot over to the corner.
If you are not crazy, the second interpreter's assertion, that this is a bureau, will be acceptable to the first interpreter. If you are crazy, the first interpreter's viewpoint, the tiger theory, will prevail.
The trouble here is that the first interpreter actually sees a tiger. The messages sent between neurons are incorrect somehow. The chemicals triggered are the wrong chemicals, or the impulses are going to the wrong connections. Apparently, this happens often, but the second interpreter jumps in to straighten things out."
— Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)

"And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost
Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future."
— Susanna Kaysen

"That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

"Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . ."
— Ken Kesey (Demon Box)

"The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

"He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it."
— Jeanette Winterson

"So are you going to be my Valentine? Since you didn't get me a fifty-cent box of candy, it's the least you can do."

- Jacob Black"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Don't ever let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun."
— Stephenie Meyer

"There's no good story without romance."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Host)

"It seemed hideously ironic that the puzzle pieces would fit together just in time for all of them to be destroyed."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Host)

"No spiders?"
"Nope."
"And no radioactivity?"
"None."
...
"Kryptonite doesn't bother me either."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Jacob: "May the best MAN win."
Edward: "Sounds about right, pup!""
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Hell isn't so bad,when you get to keep an angel with you."
— Stephenie Meyer

"And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"There’s something…strange about the way you two are together… The way he watches you—it’s so…protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something. He's very intense about you… and very careful. I feel like I don't really understand your relationship."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Would it be childish of me to hide in the closet, then?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"You're impossible. How can I put this so that you'll believe me? You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second when I was away. When I told you I didn't want you, it was the blackest kind of blasphemy."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"But outside the door to our Spanish class, leaning against the wall-looking more like a Greek god than anyone had a right to-Edward was waiting for me."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I'm a pro at weird."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"You compare one little tree to the entire forest."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"You wanted me to be human,I reminded him. Well, watch me."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"He called you pretty. That's practically an insult the way you look tonight, you're much more than beautiful."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you."
Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood.""
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

""And you are worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?"
"That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my suprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. "You're incredible""
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"He is like a drug to you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He Sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

"You know things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"And then, you said my name. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I never claimed to be normal. Just human."
— Stephenie Meyer

"I bet she's tougher than that...she runs with vampires."
— Stephenie Meyer

"There's no point to forever without you. I wouldn't want one day without you."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Could a dead frozen heart break It felt like mine would... Could a dead frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to." -Midnight Sun"
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"You are bizarrely moral for a vampire."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"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

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"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)

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

"You are, and always have been, my dream."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."
— Nicholas Sparks

"An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!"
— Nicholas Sparks

"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)