I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
—Howard Nemerov
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
—Blaise Pascal
By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.
—Taylor Negron
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?
—Michel de Montaigne
Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That's never happened to me before, and I'm not sure it'll ever happen again. I've never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I'd be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Choice
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
—Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf
The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.
—Lisa Scottoline in Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
You don't need a significant other to lead a significant life.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.
—Karen Marie Moning
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
—Ed Gardner
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
—Graffito
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
—Milton Friedman