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"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here."
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

"I am always saying “Glad to’ve met you” to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"You are a caterpillar today, tomorrow, a butterfly. God some days I sound high."
— Wendis Birdstonian, On Graduating Later Than Your Friends

"The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness."
— Daniell Koepke

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires."
— The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence."
— Arabic Proverb 

"Taste literally dictates the techniques of our bodies. It is a social orientation that shows us our place in the world. What we love, what we hate, what “works” for us, it is inventively a combo of where we’ve come from, and where we think we’re going. Taste is not an object, but a process: a series of framings and refinements which lead one’s particular image of perfection. And because everything is, to some degree, subsumed by fashion, even our images of perfection are up for grabs, changing constantly, mutating from one hotness to another. Quality might be said to be the end product of the process of taste: the essence that’s left after the acid test: the nectar of resolution that becomes exemplary."
— Barbara Kruger

"Look at that,’ she whispered, and then after a moment: ‘I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
— Simone de Beauvoir

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
— George Carlin

"The “what ifs” and “should haves” will eat your brain."
— John O’Callaghan

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
— Clementine Paddleford