“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.”— Guillaume Laurant, Hipolito, Artus de Penguern, imdb.com
“Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box.”— Guillaume Laurant, Dominique Bredoteau femme, Valérie Zarrouk, imdb.com
“At least you'll never be a vegetable—even artichokes have hearts.”— Guillaume Laurant, Amélie Poulain, Audrey Tautou, imdb.com
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”— Juliette Lewis, goodreads.com
“If you're going to throw your life away, he'd better have a motorcycle.”— Lorelai Gilmore, amazon.com
“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You are from New York therefore you are just naturally interesting.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”— Anaïs Nin, en.wikiquote.org
“If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. Let's go.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com