[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

-- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

-- Dr. Seuss, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

-- Eric Burns, The Joy of Books

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

-- Margaret Walker, The Little Prince

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

-- Hugh Walpole, Wealth of Words

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

-- Shannon L. Alder, The Savage Detectives

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Nothing changes if nothing changes

-- Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)aamir rajput khan), Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

-- Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

Don't ask too much for space. They grow into voids.

-- Karishma Magvani, A Line Made by Walking

It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.

-- Aniruddha Sastikar, BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional w

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

-- Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays

I am not the river I am the net.

-- Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

You are, and always have been, my dream.

-- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do.

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

I love you and it's getting worse.

-- Joseph E. Morris, Norwegian Wood

When there is deep love the heart breathes sentimental sighs.

-- Bluenscottish, Adverbs

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

-- Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

-- Patricia Briggs, On the Prowl

我們有兩個耳朵、一個嘴巴，所以我們聽的要比說的多兩倍。

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

-- 愛比克泰德，古希臘哲學家