People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
This is your life—not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out—change your shoes and start walking.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
It was too hard to fall in love with someone, learn all of their quirks and passions, assume you'd spend the rest of your life with them, and then suddenly have them snatched away forever.
—Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two
Believe me, I'd go back to the way things were in a minute if I could. But it's just not an option.
—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key
The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.
—Heather Brewer in Eighth Grade Bites
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
—Robert Anton Wilson
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
—Heywood Broun
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
—Voltaire
What's another word for Thesaurus?
—Steven Wright
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
—Herbert Rappaport
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
—P. J. O'Rourke
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
—Edward Abbey
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
—John le Carre
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
—Zach Braff
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
—George Washington