Latest Quotes

“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote

“The heart is a muscle like any other.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“This is not a story of another drunk college hook­up with poor decision making. Assault is not an accident.”

— Anonymous, The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Rapist

“Things just break sometimes. Maybe we should blame the third person we became, that personality we shared together. Maybe it's their fault because you're a good person and I think I'm a good person too. We just weren't made for this.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for…”

— Anonymous, The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Rapist

“It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of 'promiscuity'. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”

— Anonymous, The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Rapist

“Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time…”

— Anonymous, The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Rapist

“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But so…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?”

— Leigh Ann Henion, Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never get struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, a…”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“Dew settles without the fanfare of thunder or patter of falling rain, yet our wet feet in the morning still tell us there is something there. Sometimes miracles are like that. There is no overwhelming proof, but deep inside we know.”

— Chris Stewart, Great and Terrible

“You tell me of a place you like to go You say it will reach out and seize the sorrow And we always mean to act on what we say So come on, oh darling now hurry hurry let's go”

— Above & Beyond, We’re All We Need

“To experience what isn't, love what is.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal, A Light From the Shadows

“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zi…”

— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“The shadow proves the sunshine.”

— Switchfoot, The Shadow Proves The Sunshine