It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

“It was her style, that indefinable asset. It was said that the others had style but Babe was style.”

“Babe Paley simply never made an empty gesture, and here she was, assembling a parade of them. But her feet, her hands, her mind, her heart, were all restless."

“I just prefer long-form writing. Where the writer tells the story, visually, using words. I think we rely on images far too often these days. No one can be bothered to learn about any subject in depth, because it‘s all about the images. There‘s no intricacy.”

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine‘s Home for Peculiar Children

“Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine‘s Home for Peculiar Children

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Fifteen seconds. That‘s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”

“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.”

"A brilliant idea. That is, aside from the aforementioned bullets, the barbed wire, a herd of wild boars, a few poisoned spears, as well as about a dozen other hazards. Other than that, a winning plot!”

“Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.”

"He obliterates every restaurant he reviews. But he does it in the most entertaining way. Like Dennis Miller as a restaurant critic.”

"I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find the things that matter and hold onto them and fight for them and refuse to let them go."

“Knowing what your beliefs are often translates into knowing who you are” (excerpted from Chapter 7, If You Don‘t Stand For Something…You Will Fall for Anything)

"Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning."

"It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and then you don't get it."

"Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free." Veil Of Roses.

"But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole."

I spent my childhood hoping to find a wardrobe to walk through into a magical land. As an adult I recognized and understood the metaphors in this wonderful series of stories.

"For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy."

"The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself… No heart has ever suffered when he goes in search of its dreams."

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world… But you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."

"But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us."

"Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand."

"Help me, she thought. Don't let me be one of the minor characters."