"This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful."
— Francesca Lia Block

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
— Sylvia Plath

"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
— Alice Sebold

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to."
— Francesca Lia Block (The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold)

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
— Jane Austen

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. "
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (In the Forests of the Night)

"Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

""...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." "
— Jane Austen