"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
— Cassandra Clare

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people"
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"Love makes you a liar."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)