"The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance."
— Jodie Picoult

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."
— Jodi Picoult

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

"There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. "
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

""Advice from a Polar Bear"Live Large. Sniff out opportunities. Learn some good icebreakers. Be thick-skinned. Be fearless. Appreciate long winter nights. Keep it cool! "
— Sassy

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"In th end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

"If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

""Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.""
— Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
— Kurt Cobain

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
— Kurt Cobain

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"
— Kurt Cobain

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress."
— Kelly Clarkson

"Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
— Lady Gaga

"I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan."
— Libby Schmais (The Essential Charlotte)

"Her mother's theory about germs was that one had to ingest and touch as many as possible in order to build up a healthy immunity."
— Libby Schmais (The Essential Charlotte)

"It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist."
— Libby Schmais (The Essential Charlotte)

"If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?"
— Cathleen Schine (She Is Me: A Novel)

"Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?"
— Cathleen Schine (She Is Me: A Novel)

"Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls."
— Cathleen Schine (She Is Me: A Novel)

"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t. "
— Jodi Picoult (The Tenth Circle)

"All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in."
— Jodi Picoult (The Tenth Circle)

"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)

"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)

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Loves is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It dose not take offense and is not resentful. Love take no pleasure in others people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

"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

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end?"
— Stephenie Meyer

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

"I hear voices in my head and you're worried that you're the freak."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
— Stephen King

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

""She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.""
— Jerry Spinelli

"It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

"When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm - you start confidently, but then you stop. You wre going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it."
— Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

"With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not."
— Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

"The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth."
— Pink

"Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.""
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

""How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven.I always chose the icicle:the weapon melts away."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)