Some people think that a place can save them. Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.
—Hannah Harrington in Saving June
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
—W. Somerset Maugham
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
—Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Love is energy of life.
—Robert Browning
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
—George Bernard Shaw
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
—Oscar Wilde
When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury.
—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
—Albert Camus
Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.
—Marguerite Henry
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
—Charles Bukowski
I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.
—Anna Godbersen in Splendor
To be free is to have achieved your life.
—Tennessee Williams
But like everything else, love changed.
—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
—David Letterman