“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”— Dennis Cooper, amazon.com
“If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak, I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences, not the outcomes.”— Kathryn Vance-Perez, amazon.com
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”— Scott Westerfeld, amazon.com
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my d…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com