"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. "
— Mae West

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! "
— Mae West

"Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile."
— Mae West

"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. "
— Mae West

"Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present"
— Mae West

"Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else"
— Mae West

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
— Maya Angelou

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you."
— Maya Angelou

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
— Maya Angelou

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet"
— Carrie- Sex and the City

"
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies."


"
— Carrie (Sex in the City)

"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone, just as wild, to run with."
— Sex And The City

"Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away"
— Sex and the City

"When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?"
— Sex and the City

""You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.""
— Carrie on Sex on the City

"Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with."
— Sex in the City

""Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you""
— Anna Godbersen (Rumors)

""The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of colors"
- The Luxe"
— Anna Gobberson

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
— Sarah Dessen

"You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances."
— Sarah Dessen

"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies"
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

"I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you."
— Jennifer Weiner (Good in Bed)

"We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

""Why is love intesified by abcenss?""
— Audrey Niffenegger

"But do you think," I persist, "that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Why is love intensified by absence?"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

""I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire""
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

""Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.""
— Philippa Gregory

"To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."
— Taylor Swift

"But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs."
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

"I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."
— Emily Giffin (Something Blue)

"Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it."
— Emily Giffin (Something Borrowed)