"She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
"He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one cou..."
- Hugh Howey
"Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless"
- Tommy Wallach
"This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven."
- Jenny Hollowell
"Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which ..."
- C.S. Lewis
"Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you a..."
"I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woma..."
- Lisa See
"Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuse..."
- Maryrose Wood
"I missed the future."
- John Green
"There is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to ..."
- Anne Frank