"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter because there was all the rest of the world to visit ... And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest of my life without feeling that again? I thought: I want to go to China. It's full of treasures and strangeness and mysteries and joy." The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
"And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought." A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
"What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety." A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
"Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive." The Shack, William P. Young
"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever." The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition." Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
"Asking someone to say they love you - and she always asked - is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it." Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name, Avi
"This is the danger of loving: no matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying." The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
"You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet." Love, Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." Beloved, Toni Morrison
"And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought." A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
"What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety." A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
"Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive." The Shack, William P. Young
"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever." The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition." Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
"Asking someone to say they love you - and she always asked - is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it." Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name, Avi
"This is the danger of loving: no matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying." The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
"You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet." Love, Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." Beloved, Toni Morrison