Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

-- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

-- Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

-- Flannery O'Connor, Fangirl

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

-- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

-- Gilles Deleuze, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

The book is man's best invention so far.

-- Carolina Maria de Jesus, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Ob

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

-- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

沒有做好準備，就是準備好要失敗。

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

-- 班傑明．富蘭克林，美國開國元勳

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Flash of the Sun

Saat kita dibenci, itu berarti kita menonjol di antara yang lain.

-- Yoshichi Shimada, Saga no Gabai Bachan

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

-- Pablo Neruda, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

-- Louis L'Amour, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

-- Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

-- Oscar Wilde, Jacob's Room

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

-- Margaret Wander Bonanno, Be A Good Human

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

-- John Muir, The English Patient

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

-- Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

-- Richard Bach, One