“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”— Ann Patchett, amazon.com
“There are people that somehow become stars whether the world loves them or not.”— Dave Grohl, spin.com
“A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”— Rumi, rumichange.wordpress.com
“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”— Guy Gavriel Kay, amazon.com
“One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you’re meant to be with someone, that doesn’t necessarily mean you get to be with them.”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me… they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever…”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Either way, she was prepared to defy the inevitable, to tempt fate — to be fate.”— Warren Adler, amazon.com
“I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com