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Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.

—Katherine Mansfield

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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

—Isaac Asimov

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

—Paul Dirac

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You exist only in what you do.

—Federico Fellini

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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

—Michael Pollan

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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

—Joan Miro

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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

—Wendy Liebman

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Because he finally knew what it felt like to hold sunshine in his hands…and when she left, it was going to feel like winter all year round, even on the hottest days of summer.

—Bella Andre in Always on My Mind

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I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

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While some things may never be the same again, they could be replaced with things that were amazing…in their own way.

—Melanie Shawn in Sweet Reunion

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The love of your life is the person who makes you forget what all your standards and preconceived notions about love and romance even were.

—Carla Neggers in Tempting Fate

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I don't like complications. If something's not working…you gotta move on.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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We don't always get what we deserve. Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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Secrets have a way of pulling you apart from within. They fester until they have no place to go but out into the open.

—Deborah Bladon in Ruin

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His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.

—Maggie Stiefvater in Shiver

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