"My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?"
— Emily Dickinson

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I felt it shelter to speak to you."
— Emily Dickinson

"People are always ruining things for you."
— J.D. Salinger

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
"
— Emily Dickinson

"People never notice anything"
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

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

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron. "
— J.D. Salinger

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

"Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost (Robert Frost's Poems)

"I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity: A Novel)

"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
"
— Robert Frost

"Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable. "
— Nick Hornby

"
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who  
think they talk sense.


"
— Robert Frost

"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

"The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
— Robert Frost

"And Sometimes I Sit

and sometimes I sit
down at my typewriter
and I think
not of someone
cause there isn't anyone
to think
about and i wonder
is it worth it"
— Nikki Giovanni

"The only way out is through."
— paraphrase of Robert Frost

"Choices

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do

It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal

I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry"
— Nikki Giovanni

"Nothing gold can stay"
— Robert Frost

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"All's well if all ends well."
— William Shakespeare

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

"Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy."
— William Shakespeare

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it."
— Emily Giffin (Something Borrowed)

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."
— Emily Giffin (Something Blue)

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

"Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else."
— Paulo Coelho

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life cheats us with shadows.
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us with bitterness
and disappointment in its train."
— Oscar Wilde

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
— Oscar Wilde

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"f you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)