"But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself."
- Martina Boone
"Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are."
"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
- John Milton
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify ..."
- Joan Didion
"Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion. "
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
"It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them."
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
- Plato
"We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again."
"Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time."
"I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau