"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

"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

"Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

~Heath"
— P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
— Marilyn Monroe

"There must be a thousand girls out there, dreaming the same things as me. But I'm not going to worry about them; I'm dreaming the hardest."
— Marilyn Monroe

""I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces."
— Jodi Picoult (The Pact: A Love Story)

"As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening."
— Jodi Picoult (The Tenth Circle)

"And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Sometimes your afraid to let go of someone because you can't imagine him being with someone else. And yes, it sounds selfish, but thats how our minds work. What's the point of looking for someone new when you know hes everything to you. You know what I want? To be able to wake up and tell myself, "Hey I'm okay. I'll be alright." Being in love isn't what makes me smile, It's who I'm in love with that does. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they're all you have, because some attention is better than no attention at all. You make me sick. I want you and I'm hating it. One smile from him makes my five am wake up, cold shower, nothing to wear, no hairspray left, missed the bus, late for class whole day worth while. And there she goes again with her head in the clouds, ignoring the drama and chasing her dreams because to her reality is a stranger.
"
— ???unknown??

""I'am going to die young because I can't picture myself old."

"
— Marilyn Monroe

"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 don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

"It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. "
— Graham Greene

"I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors: A Memoir)

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."
— Jodi Picoult

"He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"
— Sherman Alexie

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
— Novalis

"You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be. "
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

"If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think 'How lucky are the dead.'"
— Dorothy Parker (The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker)

"Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, of what i did, of who I am... but most of all, im scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life, the way i feel when i'm with you -Dirty Dancing"
— Dirty Dancing

"I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him."
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

""I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone…” "
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

"
— Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
"
— Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"'Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.'

'You'll always be like this to me.'

'Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.'"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (Magnetism)

"I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society."
— Marilyn Manson

"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

"Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him. "
— Jodi Picoult