"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

"When you're drowning you don't think, "I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me." You just scream."
— John Lennon

"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."
— Tom Waits

"I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station."
— Tom Waits

"So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. "
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And you know that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing "unity""
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"It's like when my doctor told me the story of these two brothers whose dad was a bad alcoholic. One brother grew up to be a successful carpenter and never drank. The other brother ended up being a drinker as bad as his dad was. When they asked the first brother why he didn't drink, he said that after he saw what it did to his father, he could never bring himself to even try it. When they asked the other brother, he said that he guessed he learned how to drink on his father's knee. So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives."
— Susan Douglas (The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women)

"The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. Its importance is incalculable."
— Katherine Short

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
— Franz Kafka

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
— E.M. Forster

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
— Ray Bradbury

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know were they'll take you."
— Beatrix Potter

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

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman

"If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me."
— Gerard Way

"Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful."
— Gerard Way

"I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters."
— Gerard Way

"I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it"
— Gerard Way

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. "
— Gerard Way

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
— Robin Williamson

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

"...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!"
— Anne Taintor

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better."
— George Eliot (Middlemarch)

"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

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poet's Society"
— John Keating

""Do you want to swim with the dolphins this afternoon--burn of the calories?" he asked.
"Maybe later. I had another idea for burning calories."
"And what was that?"
"Well, there's an awful lot of headboard left--" "
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Everyone says you only fall in love once, but that's not true, because every time I see you, I fall in love all over again."
"
— Unknown Person

"'I have been crying,' she replied, simply, 'and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.'"
— Horace Annesley Vachell (The Romance of Judge Ketchum)

""If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly." The Flirt (pg 288)

"
— Kathleen Tessaro (The Flirt)

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"I was like a lost moon -- my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation -- that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
— Anna Quindlen

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine