"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

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

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"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)

"Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest."
— Anne Rice

"Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"...And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have."
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

""I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."

- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
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— Anne Rice

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

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
— John Churton Collins