"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

"And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."
— Charles M. Schulz

"the reason it hurts so much to seperate is because our souls are connected"
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

"...there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad."
— Sharon Creech (Absolutely Normal Chaos)

"I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again."
— Alex Tan

"The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse"
— Jacob Black

"i am both happy and sad at the same time, and im still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"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

"Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it."
— Peter Lamborn Wilson

"whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm.
yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die."
— William Shakespeare

"Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die"
— Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

"Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

"She wants to go home
But nobodys home
Thats where she lies
Broken inside
Theres no place to go
No place to go
To dry her eyes
Broken inside"
— Avril Lavigne

"I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was."
— Marian Keyes (Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married)

""Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors: A Memoir)

""Nothing is ever certain," Len said.
And the echo rang in her ears again.Len had a fixed set of phrases. It was the same phrase my dad borrowed to soothe his family. It was a cruel phrase that preyed on hope."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover."
— Anne Giardini (The Sad Truth About Happiness)

"My Jesus would not be welcome in my church, 'cause the blood and dirt on His feet might stain the carpet.""
— Todd Agnew

""And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.""
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice."
— Anne Holm (I Am David)

"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"true apothecary thy drugs art quick"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
— Woodrow Wilson

"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."
— Charles Dickens (Hard Times)

"I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. "
— Loung Ung

"And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake."
— Philip Reeve (Mortal Engines)

"For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister"
— Helen Dunmore (The Crossing of Ingo)