Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
—George Bernard Shaw
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
—Michelangelo
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
—Al Boliska
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
—Hans Urs von Balthasar
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
—William Ellery Channing
You can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
—Jennifer Echols in Going Too Far
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.
—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why
I wished I'd walked into my mother's open arms the few times she'd tried to pull me close, and pressed my face to her chest, letting my sad heart find solace there. But I hadn't. I wanted to be a help to her, not a burden, so I held back. And after a while, she stopped offering. She thought I was beyond that, when in fact I needed it now more than ever.
—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever
That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.
—Katie McGarry in Dare You To
Dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
—Philippa Gregory in The Other Boleyn Girl
On the list of things that are the worst about life, missing chances will always be number one.
—Kevin Emerson in Carlos Is Gonna Get It
I don't know how you say goodbye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.
—Laura Wiess in How It Ends
I used to be nice, but nice was boring. Nice hadn't gotten me anywhere.
—Lisa Burstein in Pretty Amy