I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

-- Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

-- Gustave Flaubert, November

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

-- Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Fault in Our Stars

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

-- Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

-- Jill Shalvis, Head Over Heels

Successes don't teach you much, but mistakes? That's a learning situation.

-- Lyle Link, Dave Isay, The Word Exchange

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

-- Marilyn Monroe, My Story

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib, The Dead-Tossed Waves

Over everything, I choose you

-- Marissa Meyer, Heartless

You will never make money if you are not willing to spend money.

-- Kyos Magupe, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

讓我們陷入困境的不是無知，而是看似正確的謬誤論斷。

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

-- 馬克．吐溫，美國文學作家

犯錯是積極主動者的特權。消極的平庸者，永遠會把時間花在證明自己沒有做錯事。

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

-- 英格瓦．坎普拉，IKEA 創辦人

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

-- Anna Nalick, Echoes

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

-- Warren Buffett, Choke

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

-- Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

-- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

-- Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

-- Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The choice of daring life is a great spirit.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!