“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”— Elvis Presley, amazon.com
“...you will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”— Christopher Pike, amazon.com
“...life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: 'You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.'”— Madeleine L’Engle, amazon.com
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“This day last year, how time moves and what it brings! So cold and stormy, and yet such gleams of peace and light making the darkness stranger and more dreary. How will it end for me?”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“If this is the only life, then why am I not just doing everything I want to do?”— James Franco, youtube.com
“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong…I don’t feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”— Richard Feynman, amazon.com
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com