Art is the objectification of feeling.
—Herman Melville
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
—Kahlil Gibran
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
—Don Marquis
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
—Robert Anthony
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
—Paul Lynde
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
—Abraham Lincoln
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
—Sinclair Lewis
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
—Charles Dickens
I was pretty sure that's how you know you're falling for someone—when you want the good and bad, when you want everything, regardless of how horrible, how dark. You want it all, because at the end of the day, it's still them.
—Rachel Van Dyken
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea
I always say that from the moment you fall in love for the first time, a line is drawn in the sand and you're never the same girl again.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
Watching someone you love…die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It's like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it's your reality, it's like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising. In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it when it does.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic
I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that's what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.
—Susane Colasanti in So Much Closer