The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

-- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

-- Germany Kent, The Papery Onions

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

-- Colin Clark, My Week With Marilyn

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

-- Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Releasing You from Fear

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

-- Jim Rohn, The Seven Storey Mountain

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

-- Dion Boucicault, Cress

The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Corpkshetra

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

-- Voltaire, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

People don't vanish from one's life; they come back in disguise.

-- Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

-- Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

通往成功的電梯故障了，你就只好爬樓梯，一次一步慢慢爬。

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. .. one step at a time.

-- 喬．吉拉德，美國著名業務員

Love wins, love always wins.

-- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".

-- Enkelejd Lamaj, Something New

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

-- Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.

-- Ane Krstevska, Wealth of Words

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

-- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

-- Orhan Pamuk, Snow