Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit - Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

I was a little excited but mostly blorft. Blorft is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years. - Tina Fey, Bossypants

No. Absolutely not.''Simon,' she said. 'It’s a perfectly fine plan.''The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?''Yes.''No,' he said. 'No, it isn’t.'Clary sat back. 'You don’t just get to say no.''This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.''Simon—'Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. 'Let me introduce you to my good friend No. - Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. - Winston S. Churchill

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me. - Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him. - Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

You can have it all. Just not all at once. - Oprah Winfrey

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? - William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?You may ask.How old are you?It's none of your business - Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

Life is a book. We fill the pages. - Victoria Valentine

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. - Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me. - Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. - Yogi Berra

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine