If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

-- Alfred Tennyson, Diggers

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

-- Ursula K. Le Guin, Persuasion

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

-- Karl Lagerfeld, Plan B

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

-- James Jeffrey Roche, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Ob

No great leader can be made by image-builders.

-- Ymatruz, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

-- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

-- Michelle Paver, Candle in the Darkness

If we put our money where our mouth is, arguments will become less egocentric and more reasonable.

-- Sola Kosoko, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck

Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

-- Shannon L. Alder, Haven

There is no law stronger than that of magic. - Kian

-- Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

-- Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Wisdom is worth more than gold.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

-- Edith Sitwell, Fallen

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

-- Voltaire, Infidel

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

-- Susan Vaught, Trigger

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

-- Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

-- Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

-- Harlan Ellison, Angry Candy

Some men never recover from education.

-- Oliver St. John Gogarty, It Isn't This Time of Year at All: An Unpremeditated Autobiography

First love," said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.

-- Lang Leav, Sad Girls