You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me—broken and faulty.
—Monica Alexander in Buried Castles
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
—Kurt Vonnegut
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
—Tom Lehrer
I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
—Walter Bagehot
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
—Charles Baudelaire
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
—George Bernard Shaw
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
—Clare Booth Luce
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
—Edward De Bono
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
—Voltaire
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
—A. Whitney Brown
Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around.
—A. Meredith Walters in Light in the Shadows
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
—Erich Fromm