I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

-- Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

If you follow your heart, you will be happy.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Cheap booze is a false economy.

-- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

-- Paula White, Princess Academy

To the stars who listen – and the dreams that are answered.

-- Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

-- Tori Amos, Fear of Falling

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

-- Joseph Brodsky, Wuthering Heights

If not from eternal separation from God, what exactly are we saving people from?

-- Braden Pedersen, 30-Second Theology: By Braden Pedersen

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

-- Alysha Speer, Eat, Pray, Love

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

-- Ellen DeGeneres, Small and Simple Things

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

-- Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

-- Mark Twain, Norwegian Wood

I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.

-- Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

-- Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

Potential has a shelf life.

-- Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.

Every wound is a word.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Green Power: The Successful Way of A. G. Gaston

There is no life without death.

-- Kyle Idleman, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

-- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.

-- Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster