We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time. - Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… - Dione Lucas

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. - Arundhati Roy

I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes...” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it. - Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. - Rabindranath Tagore

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. - E.E. Cummings

At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lots of laughing. Then the laughing stopped and there was this silence. What the hell was it?It was like the world stopped turning in that instant. Like everyone around us had disappeared. Like everything at home was forgotten about. It was as if those few minutes on this world were created just for us and all we could do was look at each other. It was like he was seeing my face for the first time. He looked confused but kind of amused. Exactly how I felt. Because I was sitting on the grass with my best friend Alex, and that was my best friend Alex's face and nose and eyes and lips, but they seemed different. So I kissed him. I seized the moment and I kissed him, - Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure - Virginia Woolf

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. - Martin Luther King Jr.

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do. - Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

Lead me not into temptation - I can find the way myself.

I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. - Beyoncé Knowles

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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