When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

-- Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

-- Haruki Murakami, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

-- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

-- Colette, Antigone

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

-- William Faulkner, The Lover's Dictionary

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.

-- Judy Blume, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

-- Joann Thomas, Wealth of Words

That's it...I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

-- Samantha Young, Scorched Skies

Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

-- Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

We wonder why we get credits only to be indebted

-- Goitsemang Mvula, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

-- Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

-- Holly Black, Tithe

Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...

-- Millard Kaufman, Bowl of Cherries

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

-- Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

-- Robert M. Drake, Paradise Regained by John Milton

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

A simple act of kindness is happiness gained.

-- Julia Kushemererwa, Wisdom And Destiny

Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.

-- Lori Jenessa Nelson, Apprentice

The difference between those that can and those that can’t is attitude.

-- Carlos Salinas, The Little Book of Big Quotes: Volume I

Wonders encircled the world.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Rabbit Hill