"But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to."
- Alyson Noel
"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good."
- Brennan Manning
"He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan"
- Gregory Maguire
"Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; ..."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your posit..."
- Richard Feynman
"You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen."
- Simone Elkeles
"What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever ..."
- Philip Pullman
"Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away."
- Ruth Ozeki
"It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned."
- Susane Colasanti
"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all ..."
- Jodi Picoult