To love is to act.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

—Victor Hugo

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

—Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

—Victor Hugo

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

—Victor Hugo

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

—Victor Hugo

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Until Trevor

You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer