"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
— James Branch Cabell

"This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next."
— Neal Shusterman (Everlost)

"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's
addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a
larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted.
We could turn it off anytime we wanted.
I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I
glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell
tastes like oranges and gasoline."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

"Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

"One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it."
— Jimmy Buffett (A Pirate Looks at Fifty)

"He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a soaring intellect. Unquestionably he was the most gifted man-at arms- this nation has produced. -William Manchester on Douglas MacArthur"
— William Raymond Manchester

"“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

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— Tom Bodett quotes

""That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.""
— Dean Koontz (Relentless: A Novel)

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody's be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way--I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I'm curious how someone...finds God, or solace, or peace or whatever it is he finds out here alone...while he's reciting words. Is itj ust a matter of believing what you say?"
— Dana Reinhardt (How to Build a House)

"If we could sleep away our troubles, we'd all be narcoleptic."
— Sidney Greenslate

"The dandelion was long popularly known as the 'pissabed' because of its supposed diuretic properties, and other names in everyday use included 'mare's fart', 'naked ladies', 'twitch-ballock', 'hounds-piss', 'open arse', and 'bum-towel'."
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

"He was a complicated man, my father; a man of great mental capacity who was driven to succeed yet humbled into mediocrity by his own emotional limitations."
— Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street)

""They were black eyed like a lizard's and very large and, the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.""
— Scott O'Dell (Island of the Blue Dolphins)