"Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"

"In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."
— Sarah Dessen (Dreamland)

"I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything.
"Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste."
"Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself." "
— Sarah Dessen (Dreamland)

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
— Albert Einstein

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
— Salvador Dali

"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
— Sarah Dessen (Dreamland)

"HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE"
— Che Guevara (Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings)

"If someone hurts you, try and move on. Eventhough it is hard! Everything will be better in time. Just wait and see. Time heals all wounds."
— Bexzi Phillips

"It's great to be alive, isn't it? Especially when you consider the alternative. "
— Jonathan Ross

"The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out."
— Georges Bataille (Theory of Religion)

"
I’ve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say ‘selves.’because the fact is, I’ve never, even as a child, felt I’m only one self, only one person. I’ve always felt I’m quite a few more than one. For example, there’s my jokey self, there’s my morose and fed-up self,there’s my lewd and disgusting self. There’s my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind-about-anything self. There’s my untidy-clothes-everywhere-all-over-my-room self, and my manically tidy self when I want my room to be minimalist and Zen to the nth degree. There’s my confidant, arrogant self and my polite and reasonable and good listener self. There’s my self-righteous self and my wickedly bad self, my flaky self and my bsentimental self. There are selfs I like and selfs I don’t like.there’s my little-girl selfnwhonlikes to play silly games and there’s my old-woman self when I’m quite sure I’m eighty and edging towards geriatric.
The self I show in action at any moment depends on where I am, who I’m with, the circumstances of the situation and the mood I’m in."
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. "
— Sam Keen

""The only time you have too much fuel, is when you are on fire""
— unknown Navy Pilot

"America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."
— Barack Obama

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. "
— William Shakespeare

"If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart."
— Shahrukh Khan

"
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers.
Are people like that? I wondered. Am I like that? Always me, like the river itself, always flowing but always different, like the water flowing in the river, sometimes walking steadily along andante, sometimes surging over rapids furioso, sometimes meandering wit hardly any visible movement tranquilo, lento, ppp pianissimo, sometimes gurgling giacoso with pleasure, sometimes sparkling brillante in the sun, sometimes lacrimoso, sometimes appassionato, sometimes misterioso, sometimes pesante, sometimes legato, sometimes staccato, sometimes sospirando, sometimes vivace, and always, I hope, amoroso.
Do I change like a river, widening and deepening, eddying back on myself sometimes, bursting my banks sometimes when there’s too much water, too much life in me, and sometimes dried up from lack of rain? Will the I that is me grow and widen and deepen? Or will I stagnate and become an arid riverbed? Will I allow people to dam me up and confine me to wall so that I flow only where they want? Will I allow them to turn me into a canal to use for they own purposes? Or will I make sure I flow freely, coursing my way through the land and ploughing a valley of my own?"
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

"It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian."
— Charles Finney

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
— Rabindranath Tagore

"Caminante son tus huellas
El camino nada más;
caminante no hay camino
se hace camino al andar.
"
— Antonio Machado

"In other words, we give our very best of our best. Anything less than that would be a disgrace to our every effort before that and after, to our morality, and to the very essence of who we are.
A failure is only a failure if you do not give everything worth giving before you fail.
"
— Mallory J. Swan

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do the little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do the big things."
— Lawrence Bell, Bell Aircraft

"Life is A challenge, It could be easy as pushing a botton,it seems easy..But to others its hard.Make the challenges fun, to make your life fun. -Tegan Clare (age:13)"
— Tegan Clare

"the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"
— nancy reagen

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
— Henry Miller

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
— GIBRAN KHALIL GIBRAN