His lying is not contingent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with.
—Susan Forward in When Your Lover Is a Liar
Be who you are and be that well.
—Francis de Sales
Love alone could waken love.
—Pearl S. Buck
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
—Hesketh Pearson
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
—Alvin Toffler
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.
—John Cage
Everything I do with you feels like an adventure.
—Steph Campbell in Depths
It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
—Samuel Butler
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
—Daniel Webster
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
—Bertrand Russell
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
—Bill Vaughan
You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of.
—Jasinda Wilder in Falling Into You
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
—Norman Cousins
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
—Robertson Davies