You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

—Antonio Porchia

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

—Antonio Porchia

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

—Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

—Antonio Porchia

Lately I've been thinking it would have been better to have just been by myself. That way, at least all of high school wouldn't be tinged with his memory.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

—Tom Masson

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold