"It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking."
— David Sedaris (When You Are Engulfed in Flames)

""So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled.

"Because I'm Chuck Bass.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Would I Lie to You)

"Today I married myself and I became my own wife."
— Johnette Napolitano, Concrete Blonde

"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."
— Jeanette Winterson

"If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking. "
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

"In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?"
— Dave Eggers

"you bitch you killed me you suck"
— Christopher Moore (You Suck: A Love Story)

"Cut the Ending, revise the script, the man of her dreams is a girl."
— Julie Anne Peters

""Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some person ever reads.""
— W.J. Toms

"If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering."
— Joshua Braff (The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green: A Novel)

"If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
"
— Barry Louis Polisar

"Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last."
— George Michael

"Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history."
— Nikolai Berdyaev

"There is only one you. . . "
— Livi Ogilvie

"How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)"
— John Steinbeck

""Love Sucks!""
— Rowan Pruitt (The author of Rejections)

"He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth."
— T.H. White

"Though our hourglass runs, one day it shall not, but then our eternity hourglass begins with never ending sands, what mantle do you want to set your hourglass of eternal life upon? This in your choice to make, no one but you can make that decision. So think wisely and live honorable, for your actions will choice the destination of your hourglass."
— Tabitha Robin

"why do you try to fit in? when you were born to stand out."
— Ian from what a girl wants.

"Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed..."
— James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)