Written words can also sing.

-- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Coraline

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

-- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

-- Ai Yazawa, Paradise Kiss, Vol. 5

對小事的真相不在意的人，在大事上也無法被信任。

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

-- 亞伯特．愛因斯坦，相對論之父

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

-- Alice Sebold, Gone with the Wind

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

-- Arrigo Boito, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

-- Mark Twain, Notebook

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

-- Martin Luther, Fahrenheit 451

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

-- Eric Ludy, When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

-- Edgar Allan Poe, Just Listen

We're all the same in the dark.

-- J.J. Murray, Renee And Jay

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

-- Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

-- Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

-- E.E. Cummings, Shadow Kiss

Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma

-- P.T. Macias, Hot & Spicy

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

-- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

-- Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena