“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Don't take everything he says as truth. Unfortunately, people lie all the time, and you don't always know what you're getting yourself into. Ask questions, do some digging, and figure out if the person you're into is really who they say they are. Until you're comfortable enough to get that close wit…”— Emily Blackwood, yourtango.com
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“What you don’t want to hear is what you may need to hear.”— Priscilla Anais Vazquez, thoughtcatalog.com
“I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“On the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of sym…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If you really don’t want a relationship, you need to say that at the beginning, out loud, and face-to-face.”— Laura Jane Williams, thoughtcatalog.com
“Right from the get-go, tell your sexual partners that you’re only interested in casual sex and have no desire to be in a relationship. If applicable, make it clear that you’re dating multiple people at the same time. The more up-front you are on what you’re looking for and available for, the easier…”— Vanessa Marin, bustle.com
“Baby, show me you're a keeper. It's been hard for me to keep up, you've been tryna keep me in the dark.”— The Weeknd, play.spotify.com
“Girl, come show me your true colors, paint me a picture with your true colors.”— The Weeknd, play.spotify.com
“It's my life, Rory. I went through all this effort for many, many years making sure people only knew what I wanted them to know, and now you're going to lay it all out in a book?”— Lauren Graham, Lorelai Gilmore, netflix.com
“He asked, 'Tell me right now, Lorelai, why aren't you in school?' and I tried to think of something. Some lie that would make sense, but I couldn't. All I could think was that yesterday I had a boyfriend who loved me and today I didn't, and I started to cry. I just sat there like an idiot, bawling.…”— Lauren Graham, Lorelai Gilmore, netflix.com
“I want to be seen as I am, warts and all.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Naomi Shropshire, Alex Kingston, imdb.com