How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. - Greta Garbo

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again.“Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper’s.” Venom raised an eyebrow.“You have hair prettier than one of Astaad’s concubines.” Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned. - Nalini Singh, Archangel's Consort

Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth,I look at you,I sigh. - W.B. Yeats

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all. - Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me - Jonathan Safran Foer

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. - Spider Robinson

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth. - Kaori Yuki

There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. - Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence. - Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed. - Rick Riordan

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. - Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you. - Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them! - Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

…well just call me Hannibal Lecter. With cleavage. - Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? - George Orwell, 1984