"You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years."
— Chris Rock

"A girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary)

"I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"there are some things in life a person just cant know"
— Sarah Weeks (So B. It)

"In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone."
— Hotaru Odagiri

"Mr. Darcy: Every savage can dance. "
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Karma will come back and hunt you."
— Earl, from My name is Earl's sitcom

"There is one other book,. that can teach you everything you need to know about life...it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

"You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live."
— Alexander Pope

"I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest."
— Luis Buñuel (My Last Sigh)

"If you cant annoy someone there is little point in writing."
— Kingsley Amis

"you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people"
— Patricia Volk

"I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life"
— June Jordan (Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan)

"Nor could I fail to recall my friendship with Howard K. Beale, professor of American History at the University of North Carolina. There he was, one day in 1940, standing just outside my room in the men’s dormitory at St. Augustine’s, in his chesterfield topcoat, white silk scarf, and bowler hat, with his calling card in hand, perhaps looking for a silver tray in which to drop it. Paul Buck, whom he knew at Harvard, had told him to look me up. He wanted to invite me to his home in Chapel Hill to have lunch or dinner and to meet his family. From that point on we saw each other regularly.
After I moved to Durham, he invited me each year to give a lecture on “The Negro in American Social Thought” in one of his classes. One day when I was en route to Beale’s class, I encountered one of his colleagues, who greeted me and inquired where I was going. I returned the greeting and told him that I was going to Howard Beale’s class to give a lecture. After I began the lecture I noticed that Howard was called out of the class. He returned shortly, and I did not give it another thought. Some years later, after we both had left North Carolina, Howard told me that he had been called out to answer a long-distance phone call from a trustee of the university who had heard that a Negro was lecturing in his class. The trustee ordered Beale to remove me immediately. In recounting this story, Beale told me that he had said that he was not in the habit of letting trustees plan his courses, and he promptly hung up. Within a few years Howard accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin. A favorite comment from Chapel Hill was that upon his departure from North Carolina, blood pressures went down all over the state.

Chapter IX, From Slavery to Freedom
"
— John Hope Franklin (Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin)

"What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptionalindividual who dares to be different."
— V.C. Andrews

"I may be short... but so was Napoleon."
— Leroy

"Jacqui's nose is bigger than my brain"
— Nathaniel

"Once I laughed when, I heard you saying
that I'd be playing, solitaire,
uneasy in my, easy chair.
It never entered my mind.

Once you told me, I was mistaken,
that I'd awaken, with the sun
and order orange juice for one.
It never entered my mind.

You have what I lack myself
and now I even have to scratch my back myself.

Once you warned me that if you scorned me
I'd sing the maiden's prayer again
and wish that you were there again
to get into my hair again.
It never entered my mind.
"
— Lorenz Hart

"as far as i know, there is only one life, so why not enjoy it fully?"
— yours truly ssv