"Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Lean incandescent

Out of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then -- "
— Sylvia Plath (The Collected Poems)

" All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed."
— Richard Adams (Watership Down)

"There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren't you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow of the motor under you foot spinning that frail thread of sound out of its metal guy like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which isn't really there, between the you which you have just left in one place and the you which you will be where you get to the other place."
— Robert Penn Warren

""It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever.""
— Richard Adams

"All good things are wild and free."
— Henry David Thoreau

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
— Simone de Beauvoir

"Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end."
— Immanuel Kant

"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
"
— Richard Adams (Watership Down: A Novel)

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
"
— Immanuel Kant

"My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt."
— William Blake

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well."
— Henry David Thoreau

"And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's."
— Woody Allen

"I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged."
— Marguerite Duras (The Lover)

""An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.""
— Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King