You aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me
It's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.
—Donna Lynn Hope
But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will, and that can be rather wonderful.
—Victoria Connelly in At Home with Mr. Darcy
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.
—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
—Thomas A. Edison
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
—Oscar Wilde
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
—Randall Jarrell
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
—G. K. Chesterton
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
—Calvin Trillin
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
—Lewis Carroll
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
—Rodney Dangerfield
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
—Pablo Picasso
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
—Dave Barry
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington
There are no facts, only interpretations.
—Friedrich Nietzsche