"My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (Searoad)

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
— Tom Robbins

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special "
— Radiohead

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"He is like a drug to you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He Sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
— Joan Crawford

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

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

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
— Garrison Keillor

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

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

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven)

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"“Conversations are one of the most precious and important parts of our soul.” "
— Aaron Mangal

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. "
— Frances Willard

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
— Howard Thurman

"...And sometime when I wasn't looking, I got a new life"
— Linda Della Donna

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
— Mark Twain

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."
— Ray Bradbury

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
— Bob Ross

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things."
— Ray Bradbury

"There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them."
— Philip Pullman

"Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
— e.e. cummings

"You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight."
— Neil Peart