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- The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
- Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, sc. 3
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
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