"The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life."
Nancy Holder
"I’ve lost control of the simple act of being able to breathe. I’m hyperventilating. “I don’t need you to show me how to breathe,” I say. “You don’t?” He looks skeptical. “I think I can handle the simple act of breathing without you."
Adriana Law
"When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist..."
Hugo Pratt
"As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker."
Val McDermid
"A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle."
Rachel Stevens
"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
John Green
"All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction."
Anonymous
"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
Lou Holtz
"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
Jonathan Safran Foer
"There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy."
Anna Maxted
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
Anonymous
"He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption."
Anonymous
"But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive."
Donna Tartt
"Do you remember?' Someone's always asking andsomeone else, always does."
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