"I'm running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop."
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

"Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was mysterious. But they were all damaged, you see. Something not right about the lot of them. Bad blood. Big dreams. Oh, I left that part out. Sorry, that should have come before. They were all dreamers, these girls. One by one, night after night, the girls came together. And they sinned. Do you know what that sin was? No one? Pippa? Ann? Their sin was that they believed. Believed they could be different. Special. They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. Things couldn't be different for them, because they weren't special after all. So life took them, led them, and they went along, you see? They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living ghosts, haunting each other with what could be. With what can't be. There, now. Isn't that the scariest story you've ever heard?"
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

"To those who will see, the world waits."
— Libba Bray

"When I dream, I dream of him."
— Libba Bray

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

""I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.""
— Libba Bray

"As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

"When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

""A worm ate words. I thought that wonderfully
Strange-a miracle-when they told me a crawling
Insect had swallowed noble songs,
A night-time theif had stolen writing
So famous, so weighty. But the bug was foolish
Still, though its belly was full of thought.""
— The Exeter Book Riddles

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"It kills me sometimes, how people die."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"My heart is so tired"
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

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

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

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

"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

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

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

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"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)

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

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

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

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

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

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

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

"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

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"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

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain