Please don’t take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.
-- B.J. Daniels, Dead Ringer
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
-- Marilyn Monroe, Alice in Wonderland
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
-- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
-- Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
要理解人生,需要往後看;要過好人生,必須往前看。
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- 索倫·奧貝·齊克果,丹麥哲學家
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
-- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
-- Charles Lamb, Fahrenheit 451
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
-- Wayne W. Dyer, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
追求心之所向的同時,別忘了享受已經擁有的一切。
Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.
-- 吉姆 · 羅恩,美國企業家
Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!
-- Gerard de Marigny, The Watchman of Ephraim
Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?
-- Liz Carlyle, No True Gentleman
You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
-- Al Pacino, Midnight in Austenland
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine
-- Taylor Swift, Days of Blood & Starlight
越想去完成的事情,越不會被稱之為「工作」。
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
-- 李查·巴哈,《天地一沙鷗》作者
Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.
-- Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
-- Roy T. Bennett, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
While the world changes, the cross stands firm.
-- Saint Bruno, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
-- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Even "meant to be" takes work.
-- Donna Lynn Hope, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde, Diary