"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

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

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
— Oscar Wilde

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
— W. Somerset Maugham

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
— Harvey Diamond

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

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

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
— Chuck Palahniuk

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
— Robin Williamson

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde

"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagerise or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
— Morrissey

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

" “Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”"
— Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Tales)

"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."
— Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set)

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

"Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;"
— Alexander Pope

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
— Alexander Pope

"And die of nothing but a rage to live"
— Alexander Pope

"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
— Alexander Pope

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"
because that was the name of his dog

And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo

And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's

and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it

Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Autumn"

because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint

And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed

when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.


Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Innocence: A Question"
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A

and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went

And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her

but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly

That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem

And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think

he could reach the kitchen."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

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

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

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

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
— Franz Kafka