quotes from the books

Carmen hated the 'life is too short' rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because 'life is too short not to,' you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it."
— Ann Brashares

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

~Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Whoever said the pen is mightier then the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
--Douglas MacArthur

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— EL&IC

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- from Jane Eyre

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
Fight Club A Novel Chuck Palahniuk

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
~"Invisible Monsters" Chuck Palahniuk

"It was the tension betweeen these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."
~"The Rum Diary" Hunter S. Thompson

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."
~ Chris McCandless (Into the Wild)

"people for whom sin is just words, salvation is just words too" As I Lay Dying, Faulkner

"A small child typically laughs more than four hundred times each day, and an adult - seventeen times."
~"The Happiness Project" Gretchen Rubin

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can't change what you feel inside."
~"Beautiful Malice" Rebecca James

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge"
— J.R. Ward (Dark Lover)

"Hell is empty, all the devils are here"-Shakespeare