Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby—I just don't care what it puts me through.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.
—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney
Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.
—Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret
The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
It is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to.
—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle
It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet.
—Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead
If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
—Donna Lynn Hope
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.
—Tana French in The Likeness
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
—Andrew S. Tanenbaum
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
—David Letterman
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
—Shirley Temple
California is a fine place to live—if you happen to be an orange.
—Fred Allen