You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. - R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. - Ian McEwan, Atonement
A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both. - Alessandra Torre
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. - Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life. - Iyanla Vanzant
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. - W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. - Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…If only you feel that love again someday for me,If only you are affected someday by my absence…Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,If only you would know what you could never procure…If only you go through the memories of past once again,Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…If only you would come back and see what damage you create,I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…If only you would see the woman that you have made,You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…Maybe you would have never made your separate way,Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…If only you would know the pain of dying every day,If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong… - Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid. - Larissa Ione, Desire Unchained