1.“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”—Bram Stroker, Dracula
2.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”–F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
3.“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
4.“One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
—Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
5.“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh
6.“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.” – Five Quarters Of The Orange, Joanne Harris
7.“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On The Road
8.”I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
9.“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” -Stephen King, Different Seasons
10.“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
11.”There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
12.”He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
13.”We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
14.”For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.”― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
15.”Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”— Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
16.“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” — John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
17.“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
18.“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” —J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19.”All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
20.“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
