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“I am being watched. My stalker is smart, just like I would be.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“People rarely search for bodies in ceilingsâ€�”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“My depression is cyclical. When feeling down, I must remember each episode has a beginning, middle, and end.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“Transhumanism will save democracy from its demise.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Is there a problem?â€�
“No. In fact, she’s quite impressed with your work. So much so, she wants you to be appointed head legal counsel.�
“Yes, she did mention something along those lines in this morning’s meeting. But I didn’t want to say anything in case she’d been blowing smoke. Switching isn’t a problem, is it? I mean, I’d be happy to try to smooth things over with the other lawyer.�
“That’s not necessary,â€� Saul said, dryly. “I’m the other attorney.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

“In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face.”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Belonging is a deep genetic drive. More and more, Cassie felt it. Safe and comfortable with the Madison House residents, her membership in the wider community was extending, weaving itself into the layers of her life. p213”
― Christine M. Knight

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;”
― Wilkie Collins, No Name

“The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

“The whites, you see, are tempted by their egos and have no means to resist. We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life—you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“O kings and presidents, Adams said he saw little to distinguish them from other men. 'If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

“Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“- LE VICOMTE, suffoqué :
Ces grands airs arrogants !
Un hobereau qui... qui... n'a même pas de gants !
Et qui sort sans rubans, sans bouffettes, sans ganses !

- CYRANO :
Moi, c'est moralement que j'ai mes élégances.
Je ne m'attife pas ainsi qu'un freluquet,
Mais je suis plus soigné si je suis moins coquet ;
Je ne sortirais pas avec, par négligence,
Un affront pas très bien lavé, la conscience
Jaune encore de sommeil dans le coin de son oeil,
Un honneur chiffonné, des scrupules en deuil.
Mais je marche sans rien sur moi qui ne reluise,
Empanaché d'indépendance et de franchise ;
Ce n'est pas une taille avantageuse, c'est
Mon âme que je cambre ainsi qu'en un corset,
Et tout couvert d'exploits qu'en rubans je m'attache,
Retroussant mon esprit ainsi qu'une moustache,
Je fais, en traversant les groupes et les ronds,
Sonner les vérités comme des éperons.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Then God's a bigger poofter than Sweet Willie. "You might be right" said Justine. "He certainly isn't too fond of women, anyway. Second-class, that's us, way back in the Upper Circle. Front Stalls and the Mezzanine, strictly male.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“Can you run?â€� said Hazel. “I think not. Why you pop-eyed, back-door saucer-scraperâ€�”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down