What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

Wonderland__ · Post by **Wonderland__** » 12 Dec 2015, 16:57

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“They make it look so easy. Connecting with another human being. It’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.” - Dexter

”No matter where we go, we take ourselves and our damage with us. So is home the place we run to or is it the place we run from? Only to hide out in places where we are accepted unconditionally, places that feel more like home to us. Because we can finally be who we are.“ -Dexter

"You're a psychopath."
"I prefer creative."
- Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't." -
Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

"That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of." - Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

meigui22 · Post by **meigui22** » 13 Dec 2015, 23:34

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. (с) Oscar Wilde

-- 13 Dec 2015, 23:37 --

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby ( also my favourite book)

-- 13 Dec 2015, 23:39 --

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
(about reading again)

velociraptorsrkewl · Post by **velociraptorsrkewl** » 21 Dec 2015, 20:31

"Believe nothing, no matter where you have read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own common sense." -Buddha

rchl-ann · Post by **rchl-ann** » 30 Dec 2015, 14:03

She was one of the few souls that made me wonder what it was to live

-Death (The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak)

Kindestry1 · Post by **Kindestry1** » 02 Jan 2016, 13:24

My mother had the book The Prophet written by Khalil Gibran laying around the house when I was kid. I tried to read it a time or two. It was boring as a kid. A few years ago, I was working in a local thrift store and came across a hard back copy of it. I picked it up for a low price and thought I'd give it a try again. There are many parts of it that now seem to resonate with me. This piece especially.

On Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable

~The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

J+R · Post by **J+R** » 02 Jan 2016, 16:56

[quote=”Bernice Mennis”]You have been away a long time.
How did your life become so fragile
That any thing unravels the thread
Making you start again and again,
All tangled and helplessly lost?
Watch the cat follow the string,
The dog follow the stick.
Follow your own footsteps on the dirt road,
Your shadow running silently alongside.
Listen to foot and heart.
Let everything lead you home
One step at a time. Holding It All.[/quote]

SharisseEM · Post by **SharisseEM** » 04 Jan 2016, 03:00

"Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make." - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kiss of the Night)

alterstories · Post by **alterstories** » 06 Jan 2016, 14:31

One of my own quotes, hope you like it.

“The most unpredictable stories are our children. You will never know when the PLOT TWIST kicks in".

chez59 · Post by **chez59** » 09 Jan 2016, 11:41

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

steampunk_girl · Post by **steampunk_girl** » 10 Jan 2016, 19:31

A shark who dreamed he was a man...

-Evan, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. I love this quote because besides the originality, Evan is an alien fighting to gain humanity. A shark wanting to become human and an alien wanting to, both hold the same idea - something wanting to become something else.

-- 10 Jan 2016, 19:31 --

A shark who dreamed he was a man...

-Evan, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. I love this quote because besides the originality, Evan is an alien fighting to gain humanity. A shark wanting to become human and an alien wanting to, both hold the same idea - something wanting to become something else.

Stari · Post by **Stari** » 11 Jan 2016, 02:30

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." - Neil Gaimen

Augustus Waters · Post by **Augustus Waters** » 12 Jan 2016, 14:08

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson

falloutlunartic · Post by **falloutlunartic** » 12 Jan 2016, 18:13

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

― Joelle Charbonneau, The Testing

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

~ The Fault in our stars

writerwestlin · Post by **writerwestlin** » 13 Jan 2016, 18:51

I have a lot of favorites but the one the struck me most recently was:

"A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races,"
The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith.