“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Peace begins with a smile..”
Mother Teresa
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you really are.”
H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
“I don’t know,” Magnus said. “Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
