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

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

-- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams.

-- Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

-- Diogenes of Sinope, Beneath the Wheel

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

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

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

-- Maya Angelou, City of Bones

領導的作用是產生更多領導者，不是追隨者。

-- 拉爾夫．納德，美國政治家

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

-- Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles