The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him. - Ian McEwan, Atonement
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. - David Hume
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. - John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. - Richelle Mead
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges. - Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity. - Lemony Snicket
For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core. - Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. - Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light. - Emily Dickinson
Is it better to be loved or feared? - Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles M. Schulz
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. - John Cheever
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button. - Sam Levenson
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
