Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. - Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. - Richard Bach, One

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. - Thomas Bernhard, Correction

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. - Thomas A. Edison

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Oprah Winfrey

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield. - Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. - Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage canssaid the fly and gatherup the germs oftyphoid influenzaand pneumonia on my feetand wingsthen i carry these germsinto households of menand give them diseasesall the people whohave lived the rightsort of life recoverfrom the diseasesand the old soaks whohave weakened their systemswith liquor and iniquitysuccumb it is my missionto help rid the worldof these wicked personsi am a vessel of righteousnessscattering seeds of justiceand serving the noblest usesit is true said the spiderthat you are moreuseful in a ploddingmaterial sort of waythan i am but i do notserve the utilitarian deitiesi serve the gods of beautylook at the gossamer websi weave they float in the sunlike filaments of songif you get what i meani do not work at anythingi play all the timei am busy with the stuffof enchantment and the materialsof fairyland my workstranscend utilityi am the artista creator and demi godit is ridiculous to supposethat i should be deniedthe food i need in orderto continue to createbeauty i tell youplainly mister fly it is alldamned nonsense for that foodto rear up on its hind legsand say it should not be eatenyou have convinced mesaid the fly say no moreand shutting all his eyeshe prepared himself for dinnerand yet he said i couldhave made out a casefor myself too if i hadhad a better line of talkof course you could said the spiderclutching a sirloin from himbut the end would have beenjust the same if neither ofus had spoken at allboss i am afraid that whatthe spider said is trueand it gives me to thinkfuriously upon the futilityof literaturearchy - Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right - Steve Jobs

You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you - David Nicholls, One Day

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive. - Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. - Ernesto Che Guevara

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever. - Lev Grossman, The Magicians

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. - Marty Rubin