"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

""But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"""
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë

"And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken."
— Tiffanie DeBartolo

"The world isn't just the way it is.
It is how we understand it, no?
And in understanding something,
we bring something to it, no?

Doesn't that make life a story?"
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)