The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. - James Hilton, Lost Horizon

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. - Earl Nightingale

Desire is half of life - indifference is half of death.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. - Walter Mosley

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. - John Gardner, Grendel

I feel infinite. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sought we the Scrivani word-work of SurthurLong-lost in ledger all hope forgotten.Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringerHot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with findingBreathless her breast her high blood risingTo ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.“That sort of thing,” Simmon said absently, his eyes still scanning the pages in front of him.I saw Fela turn her head to look at Simmon, almost as if she were surprised to see him sitting there.No, it was almost as if up until that point, he’d just been occupying space around her, like a piece of furniture. But this time when she looked at him, she took all of him in. His sandy hair, the line of his jaw, the span of his shoulders beneath his shirt. This time when she looked, she actually saw him.Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen. It was worth blood and the fear of death to see her fall in love with him. Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love, so light she probably didn’t notice it herself. It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling. - Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done. - Madonna

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever. - Nina LaCour, Hold Still

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. - J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts. - Ai Yazawa

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. - Bob Proctor, You Were Born Rich

A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light - Lady Gaga

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful - to make the most of what we have

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea. - Jonathan Morris, Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. - Hannah Harrington, Saving June