"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over. "
— Unknown

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"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

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford"
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

"My soul will find yours."
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

"Time has no meaning,
Love will endure.."
— Jude Deveraux

""Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?" ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.

Gazzy thought. "I have X-ray vision," he said. He peered at ter Borcht's chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.

Ter Borcht was startled for a second, but then he frowned. "Don't write dat down," he told his assistant in irritation. The assistant froze in midsentence.

~

"You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?"

Nudge chewed on a fingernail. "You mean, like, besides the WINGS?" She shook her shoulders gently, and her beautiful fawn-colored wings unfolded a bit.

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."

"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"

"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.

Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ...

... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

~

Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."

Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?"

"Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert"...

~

Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."

~

"I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahrs!" Gazzy barked."
— James Patterson

"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"A dirge for her the doubly dead

is that she died so young"
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry.
~Mark Gianni"
— Lurlene McDaniel (As Long as We Both Shall Live: Two Novels)

"When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.
~Mark Gianni"
— Lurlene McDaniel (As Long as We Both Shall Live: Two Novels)

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
-How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)"
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
~Julia Romano"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

""Don't ever leave me again." -Max
"I won't. I won't not ever." -Fang"
— James Patterson

"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

""Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang"
— James Patterson

"If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours."
— Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note Box Set)

"Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?

L: Damn you, Kira..."
— Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note, Volume 2: Confluence)

"'When snow melts, what does it become?'
'It becomes water, of course'
'Wrong! It becomes spring!'"
— Natsuki Takaya

""Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting"
— Natalie Babbitt

"dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life."
— Natalie Babbitt (tuck everlasting)

"Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes."
— Mae Tuck, from Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

""faint heart never won fair lady""
— Meg Cabot (Princess in Love)

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed. But sometimes people find this out too late. "
— Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)

"No one looks like Fang-dark and still and dangerous, like he's daring you to set him off. But I'd seen him rocking Angel when she'd hurt herself; I'd seen him smile in his sleep; I'd seen the deep, dark light in his eyes as he leaned over me... "
— James Patterson (Max)

"I choose you, Max.

~Fang, "MAX"; page 85"
— James Patterson (Max)

"The iron heart that does not bleed
The iron wing that does not break
They exist, here and now"
— Tsugumi Ohba

"Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past."
— Carson Levine Gail

""Fate...may...be...thwarted."
-Puru God of Fate"
— Gail Carson Levine (Ever)

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?"
— Jodi Picoult

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up"
— Jodi Picoult

"Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?

I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time.

Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it. "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Love is giving someone your heart, knowing that they can destroy your whole world when you do that, but trusting that person not to do that". "
— The I-conscience

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis