"Edward. Edward. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. And a world without Edward seemed completely pointless. Edward had to exist."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was.
Not one string, but a million. Not strings, but steel cables. A million steel cables all tying me to one thing - to the very center of the universe.
I could see that now - how the universe swirled around this one point. I'd never seen the symmetry of the universe before, but now it was plain.
The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.
It was the baby girl in the blond vampire's arms that held me here now.
Renesmee."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
— Golda Meir

"I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence."
— Johnny Depp

"It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all."
— Dr. Seuss (Wacky Wednesday)

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas)

"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true."
— Wally Lamb (I Know This Much Is True)

"The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world."
— Meg Cabot

"Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you."
— Allison DuBois

"With money you can but a house, but not a home. "
— Chinese Proverb

"Be righteous but not self righteous."
— Ahmed Rehab, MYLP

"he who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen's Letters)

"The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?"
— Jon Katz

"With money you can but a position, but not respect. "
— Chinese Prverb

"There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is."
— Kamila Shamsie, "Omi" Broken Verses

"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

"Love must be easy to understand seeing as a lot of songs talk about it as if pancakes for dinner is a common option."
— Katie Kelly

"Oshima's sile nt for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"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

"Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi."
— Kamila Shamsie

"Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr inmulti la nesfarsit"
— Franz Kafka

"men are like roses ......

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

"everything is just a suggestion until firearms become involved."
— M.S. Blazer