“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this Goddamn world upside down to do it.”— Richard Brautigan, brautigan.net
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”— Paul Sweeney, goodreads.com
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.”— Julian Barnes, amazon.com
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”— Gabriel Garcàa Mà¡rquez, amazon.com
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”— Tom Stoppard, amazon.com
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”— Kate Chopin, amazon.com
“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com