"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
— Jodi Picoult

""You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?" "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

""Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?" "
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

"It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

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

"I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle."
— Jodi Picoult (The Pact: A Love Story)

"On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

-Brian Fitzgerald"
— Jodi Picoult

"I asked Wikipedia what the Twilight saga was about and it shot itself."
— Stephenie Meyer

"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

"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

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

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

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

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"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. 09: The Kindly Ones)

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

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

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

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