"A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness."

"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it."

"Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better."

"I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any."

"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"Sometimes life happens."

"No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope"

"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

"Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for."

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds."

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"To live is to war with trolls."

"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

"Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out."

"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."

"Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose."