“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“...the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever it was that had tried to hurt me.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“Whether or not you find your own way, you’re bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it’s quite rusty.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“If we must have milestones—mine will be measured by how much joy I have collected at the end of each day and how often in this life I have truly, deeply, opened.”— Janne Robinson, jannerobinson.com
“You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”— Gordon MacKenzie, amazon.com
“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, such as happiness.”— Brandon Boyd, youtube.com
“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d even bothered.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“I am running away but I prefer to call it just a 'strategic retreat'.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”— Sholom Aleichem, goodreads.com
“I wanted to look ahead to where I was going, not back at what I was leaving, but then I turned anyway.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“I am not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com