People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on.

—Josh Lanyon in Perfect Day

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

—Joseph Brodsky

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

—A. J. Liebling

Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everyone lets you down, it’s a fact of life. The key is to know when they’re doing it because they don’t care enough to try not to.

—Kelley York in Hushed