The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places

What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?

—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

—Oscar Wilde

Sometimes you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

People come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be.

—Joyce Carol Oates in and Flew Away

People don't change. They're only revealed.

—Staci Hart in Hardcore