"Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out."
— Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"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

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

"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

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

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

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

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four a.m."
— Wally Lamb

"I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer"
— Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)

"He was right. And he was an insensitive shit."
— Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)

""that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717) "
— Wally Lamb (The Hour I First Believed: A Novel)

"So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and a comb and a marker pen. So I says to her, 'Look, girlie, I got false teeth and I wear a wig.' So she fishes back in my bag and takes out the comb and the gum. Left the pen in there. Anyways, I went back to the van, even though I knew it was locked. Figured I'd just wait and have a smoke. You can't smoke in the van, see? So while I'm waiting there, minding my own business, this car pulls into the handicapped space right next to us--brand-new car, white and clean, and it's got this bumper sticker on it that says, 'Life Is a Shit Sandwich.' Isn't that stupid? So this guy gets out--good-lookin' fella, in his twenties. I say to him, 'Hey, handsome, tell me something.' He takes a look at my walker and gets all panicky. 'I'm just running in for two seconds,' he says. See, he thinks I'm going to yell at him for parking in a handicapped space, but I ain't. I don't give a rat's ass about that, you see. I'd rather walk the extra ten feet than be called handicapped. Where was I?'
She amazed me. 'Life's a shit sandwich,' I said.
'Oh, yeah. Right. So that guy goes runnin' into the store and here's what I did. I fished that free pen out of the bag and marched right over there to that bumper of his. Got myself right down on the ground--and I wrote--just after the 'Life's a shit sandwich' part--I wrote, 'But only if you're a shithead.' 'Course, then I couldn't get myself back up again--had to yell over to a couple of kids at the phone booth to come pick me back up."
— Wally Lamb

""Fuck you, I said."
"Uh-oh. There's that angry word.""
— Wally Lamb (She's Come Undone)

"With destruction comes renovation."
— Wally Lamb (I Know This Much Is True)

"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
— William Shakespeare

"What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell."
— Reduced Shakespeare Company