"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

"Wendy was grown up. You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls." -J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the cat, 'or else you wouldn't have come here.'" - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

'I think it pi**** God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.' Alice Walker ~ The Color Purple.

"To die will be an awfully big adventure." Peter Pan ~ J. M. Barrie.

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22." Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller

"Do you know what happens when you hurt people?" Ammu said. "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Macbeth:

"When shall we three meet again in thunder lightning or in rain? When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won."

"If the day ever comes that I walk up to that snow-white circle, I'll step into the center of it, kneel down, and make one wish, for in my heart I believe in the legend of the rare fairy ring." From Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls.

By Mark Twain: "Sing like nobody's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, live like it's heaven on earth."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain

"You know, there is a such a thing as a tesseract."

Mrs. Who, Which or What from A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L' Engle

The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton

"I mean: how shall I explain? It's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again."

"He walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head." ~The Fountainhead; Ayn Rand

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, them I'm neurotic as hell". ~The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath

"There's holes in the sky

Where the rain gets in

But they're ever so small

That's why rain is thin."

-Spike Milliga

And, of course so many lines from Harry Potter:

"Malfoys got detention! I could sing!"-Hermione

"Exactly, which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities" - Headmaster Albus Dumbledore

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world." --Ron

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."

- Albus Dumbledore

We can't leave out, Herman Melville's "Call me Ishmael."

Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before...He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

From Moonshine by Rob Thurman

"The day was a blur, running on feet that scarcely touched the ground. I should've taken it as a sign. Good things take forever to come. Bad ones chase you down with a speed that leaves cheetahs in the dust."

'Everybody always wants to be a mermaid.'

-Mermaid Park by Beth Mayall

'I dreamed I was a frog. I was yucky.'

-Bloomability by Sharon Creech

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Grouch Marx

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