My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, City of Bones

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

-- Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

-- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

痛苦的降臨，是要讓我們清醒，而不是難過，讓我們更有智慧，而不是懊悔。

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

-- 赫伯特 ‧ 喬治 ‧ 威爾斯，英國著名小說家

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

There is always a reason to smile. You just have to find one.

-- Kyos Magupe, Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.

-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

A man always wants his friends to be a little in love with his beloved too.

-- Carlene Bauer, Frances and Bernard

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

-- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

-- Diane Setterfield, Winner of the National Book Award

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

-- Eoin Colfer, Airman

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

-- Björk, The House of Paper

懂得不多的人往往話多，而淵博者則寡言。

People who know little are usually great talker, while men who know much say little.

-- 盧梭，法國思想家、政治理論家

Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

-- Euripides, Medea

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

-- Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

-- George Alexiou, The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on O

Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

-- Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

不要貪多，做精做透很重要，碰到一個強大的對手或者榜樣的時候，你應該做的不是去挑戰它，而是去彌補它。

-- 馬雲，阿里巴巴集團創辦人