“ When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learne… Jon Krakauer
“ What you are Vivian is a type of person. To be more specific,you are a type of woman. A tediously common type of woman. Do you think I've not encountered your type before? Your sort will always be sli… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things... Herman Melville
“ Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of be… Cecelia Ahern
“ Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Dr… Paul Auster
“ Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day. Robert Jordan
“ This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, t… John Bunyan
“ There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — th… Mercedes Lackey
“ The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ‘So… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ Seduto su un macigno eroso dai venti, dal sole e dalle piogge degli uragani, Carter ne contemplò la cresta denudata, dorata dalla luce del tramonto. Grazie a Tutankhamon, quel regno del nulla si era t… Christian Jacq
“ Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. Eoin Colfer
“ Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the val… J.K. Rowling
“ Now I appreciate that for those of you who have stayed with me this far, there's nothing too surprising about this romantic development. You probably saw it coming. But I didn't James Patterson
“ No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise. Laurell K. Hamilton
“ It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we ar… Virginia Woolf
