I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

—Randy Pausch

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

—Randy Pausch

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

—Randy Pausch

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

—Randy Pausch

It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.

—Randy Pausch

Love is the same as being lost. Except you don't care that you're lost.

—Jedediah Berry in The Coyote Road

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

—Thomas Hardy

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

Love is such a slippery thing.

—Kristin Hannah in The Nightingale