“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?” “If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you.”

Rita Mae Brown

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You