“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”— Charles de Lint, goodreads.com
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”— Françoise Sagan, news.bbc.co.uk
“I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”— John Updike, amazon.com
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and d…”— Dan Millman, amazon.com
“All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.”— David Cronenberg, amazon.com
“I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you. Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you. I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.”— Brian Molko, college.usatoday.com
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”— Epicurus, amazon.com
“We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn’t look like what you wanted anymore.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com