"Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. "
— Darren Shan (Sons of Destiny)

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
— Judy Garland

"You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future."
— David Klass

"Do not hate on me just because who I am...Love me for who I am and get on with your life..."
— Brittany Kimmie

"If you give me wings
I will soar for you

Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water

If you give me a sword
I will fight for you

Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light
-nel
"
— Tite Kubo

"Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out."
— Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl)

"You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be."
— Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl)

"Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again. "
— Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl)

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"[T]o study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"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)

"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 never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
— Mitch Albom

"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"When we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life."
— Oriental tradition.

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die"
— Amelia Burr

"There is darkness in every heart."
— Kingdom Hearts

""...Darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."

~Nyx"
— P.C. Cast (Marked)

"If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."
— Pythagoras

"Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it."
— Christopher Pike (The Last Vampire)

"Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action."
— Geraldine McCaughrean

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

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

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

""Love me or hate me, i swear, it wont make me or break me""
— Lil Wayne

"I feel no sympathy, you lived inside a cave
you barely get by the rest of us, you're trying
there's no need to apologize
i have no time for feeling sorry"
— Paramore

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says 'shut the fuck up!'"
— Rodney Dangerfield

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou