“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”— Wilson Mizner, goodreads.com
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”— Brit Marling, independent.co.uk
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Shut your eyes to everything else and do not let yourself be disturbed by people.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I’m not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or…”— Amy Poehler, elle.com
“...we know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”— Hjalmar Söderberg, amazon.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world…We’re all neighbors.”— Frank Sinatra, boingboing.net