The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars – Jack Kerouac
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe – Donna Tartt
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do – David Foster Wallace
You are your best thing – Toni Morrison
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good – John Steinbeck
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself – Virginia Woolf
Get busy living, or get busy dying – Stephen King
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting – Paulo Coelho
They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer – Colette
And the rest is rust and stardust – Vladimir Nabokov
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living – Jonathan Safran Foer
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row – J. D. Salinger
I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything – F. Scott Fitzgerald
You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how – Margaret Mitchell
She is mortal danger to all men – Edmond Rostand
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore – William Faulkner
Stay gold – S. E. Hinton
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt – Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be – Kurt Vonneugt
