"When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

""A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory"---Memoirs of a Geisha"
— Arthur Golden

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

"...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

"Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie)

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"But what is life if you don't live it?"
— James Patterson (Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas)