"Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

""I can't get through the year without getting kicked out or blowing something up."
-Percy Jackson" "
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

"Haruhi:Will you please stop making more trash?
Tamaki: It's not trash... it's home for a hamster..
Haruhi: You don't have a hamster, senpai.
Tamaki: I'm not your senpai, just some one you know."
— Haruhi Fujioka and Tamaki Suou

"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames."
— Lloyd Jones

""Many waters cannot quench the flame of love...neither can the floods drown it. If a man tried to buy it with all that he owned....he could not do it.""
— Various

"'And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?'
'Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.'
That made me feel somewhat better.
'But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.'
That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

"I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you."
— Philip K. Dick

"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

"So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break"
— Billy Joel

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. "
— Cynthia Heimel

"For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person..."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

""And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again""
— Ann Rice

"Ephraim Pontipee: [to two women on the street] Care for a chaw of tobaccy? "
— Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

""She realized she was lucky - because she could actually see it - how the trees got more beautiful each year...how they danced with such graceful pride, surviving each season's change...and she knew their beauty lied not in the perfection, but the growth...and she could see it - in the trees, the people around her, and some days, even in herself...and so she would dance""
— Kourtni Lind's Mother

"...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit."
— Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca)

"love-the most complicated word in the english language"
— Lunaa lynn

"Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

""Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;
whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses,
and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
and especially when my hypos get such an upper hand of me,
that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-
then, I account it high time to get to a bookstore as soon as I can.
That is my substitute for the pistol and ball."



"
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick: or, The Whale)

"men are like roses ......

you got to watch out for the pricks!"
— un knwon

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"sometimes i'm so brilliant, i surprise myself!"
— Hannah Curtis