""this Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on...""
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak."
— Margaret Weis (Dragons of a Lost Star)

"your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"you're doomed at being you."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"it's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. we have no scar to show from happiness. we learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted)

"Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away."
— Sarah Dessen (Dreamland)

"You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted)

"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

""I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.""
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

"music is a total constant. That's why we have such strong visceral connection to it... a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same "
— Sarah Dessen

"...the idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Fine just fine."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always changing. for any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. you can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you'd want to have spent it?"
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. you get use to the weight, how it holds you in place"
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Make me into anything, but just love me."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated

- Dexter"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay."
— Sarah Dessen (Dreamland)