“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
— Stephanie Lennox“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
— George Carlin“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
— Jess C Scott“I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.”
— Derek Landy“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
— Jess C Scott“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”
— Alan Bennett“I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.”
— Björk“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
— Stephen King“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
— Jess C Scott“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.”
— Jess C. Scott“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
— Jess C Scott“Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
— Colleen Hoover“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
— Diana Wynne Jones“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
— Terry Pratchett“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
— Dave Barry“May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch”
— Keisha Keenleyside“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
— Stephen Fry“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“I'm not into this whole move with the times thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
— R.D. Ronald“Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!”
— Shel Silverstein“If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.”
— Ilyas Kassam“Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else”
— Benny Bellamacina“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Never say no to now”
— Benny Bellamacina“If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.”
— Jess C Scott“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
— Niels Bohr“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
— Jess C. Scott“Please, touch me, I pray.”
— Jess C Scott“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
— Jess C Scott“He'll have that scar forever.Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.”
— J. K. Rowling“I don't like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.”
— Linnea Gelland“Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.”
— Sharon Sant“There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes.”
— Simone Elkeles“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?”
— Jess C Scott“When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this aspect of my personality.”
— Huntley Fitzpatrick“I can accept a compliment, but not from you. You scare me, Mister Sampson. You’re a stranger here on our land and we shouldn’t even concern ourselves with you. But you killed three gunmen and ignited a war.”
— Donald Montano“Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.”“You’re not?”
— Maya Banks“If I let you go are you going to hit me again?”“What do you think?”“Then I’m not going to let you go.”
— Sarah Mayberry“Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely.”
— Christine Feehan“He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.”
— Tara Janzen“What the dev— er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!”“Good,” said the angel. “I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.”
— Anne Gracie