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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don’t reach my lips.
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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— Anne Sexton
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Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
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Walter Moers, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J.K. Rowling
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
J.D.Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
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People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
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— Mark Strand
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasak
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It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts
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