“ When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. Margaret Atwood
“ We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are… David Guterson
“ This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays;… David Mitchell
“ The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of… James Joyce
“ The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local eco… James S.A. Corey
“ One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself… Bell Hooks
“ Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the rest… Susanna Clarke
“ Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregat… Carl Sagan
“ Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can Louisa May Alcott
“ If I was blind, I would still see you.If I was deaf, I would still hear you.If I was mute, I would still speak to you. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. Ken Kesey
“ I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences… Roger Zelazny
“ How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away? Mitch Albom
“ Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served… Napoleon Hill
“ Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. Mark Z. Danielewski
“ Can I sleep with you? asked Oz. Kinda scary in my room. Pretty sure I saw a troll in the corner. Lou said, Get up here. Oz climbed next to her. Oz suddenly looked troubled. When you get married, who a… Baldacci David
“ But some things did not change...Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast agains… Juliet Marillier
“ At another time she asked,'what is a soul?'' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I writ… William Gibson
“ She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebody that felt cramped by the confines of her life. She was just somebody who had to get out. And she did… Alan Moore
