"There's no great loss without some small gain."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)

"When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
— Cory Doctorow

""I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A"
— Sara Shepard (Pretty Little Liars)

"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"Jack "Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."
(Rapunzel glares)
Jack continues "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.""
— Shannon Hale

"Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'.

Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?"
— Sara Shepard (Perfect)

"It's the heart that really matters in the end."
— Rob Thomas

"Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.

She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy.

Or that's a lie. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her in a meadow. First she dug her own grave, then a single bullet to the back of the skull.

Her last thought, before that bullet, was that she was four months' pregnant, and that if we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow.

There are bones untouched beneath the warm French earth which dream of a daughter's wedding. Good wine is drunk. The only tears shed are happy ones."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

"Hmm! Teenagers-they give you an inch and they swim all over you."
— Sebastian in "The Little Mermaid"

"I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose."
— James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)

"“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air; but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen” "
— Louisa May Alcott

"But my subconscious mind--the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain--could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott or Edith Wharton or Calvin Trillin instead. And if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself."
— Sara Nelson

"Boy, what a softshell I'm turning out to be!"
— Sebastian in "The Little Mermaid"

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul"
— Frances Hodges Burnett

""She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.""
— Frances Hodgson Burnett

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
"
— Oscar Wilde

"Up where they walk. Up where they run. Up where the stay all day in the sun. Wondering free. Wish I could be, Part of your World."
— The little mermaid

""Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.""
— Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)

""Our gifts, they are many:
We hop, fly, and crawl.
But kindness," he said,
"Is the finest of all!""
— David Kirk

""Did you really believe I was Toby? Puh-lease. I would have killed myself too. I mean, honestly - ew. He totally had it coming. Karma's a bitch, and so am I - just ask Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer....""
— Sara Shepard (Flawless)

"Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour. "
— Laura Esquivel

"‘Is that my boy?’
‘As sure as this is my girl!’"
— Louisa May Alcott (Good Wives)

""it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness" "
— Tom Perrotta

""The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.""
— Angela Carter

"Here, then, is a great mystery. For you who love the little prince, as for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere - we do not know where -a sheep we have never met has or has not eaten a rose."
— Antione de Saint-Exupery

"wop-bop-a-lu-bop...
a-lop-bam-boom!"
— R.W. Penniman

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

""Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A""
— Sara Shepard (Flawless)

"I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia."
— Kim Stanley Robinson (Pacific Edge: Three Californias)

"Are you calling me irrational? Because I ll tear your head off, Daniel. I ll tear it off and I ll throw it over that fence. "
— Kim from Freaks and Geeks

""I need those little pushy things on the side!...BUTTONS!" -Julia
"
— Julia Brown

"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett

""little prince:if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
antione:a sheep eats whatever it finds
little prince:even a flower with thorn?
antione:even a flower with thorns.
little prince:than whats the good of thorns?"
— Antione de saint-Exupery

""I want us to think seriously about living in a society where some people are privileged but others are not, and we take it as a matter of course that this is the way it is.""
— Terrance Roberts

"ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE"
— Patricia J Smith

"Papa God growed us up till we could wear long pants; then he licensed his name to dollar bills, left some car keys on the table, and got the fuck outta town.' Water rushes to his eye-holes. 'Don't be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.' He takes hold of my shoulders, spins me around, and punches me towards the mirror on the wall. 'You're the God. Take responsibility. Exercise your power.'"
— D.B.C. Pierre