"It does not do to dwell in dreams and forget to live.". Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling *
. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Gatsby believed in the greenlight, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... and one fine morning -- So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past". Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan
"The quest is as important, if not more important, than the goal.". Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
"You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?". Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being". Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling *
. The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs.
"The poet Langston Hughes was a busboy at a hotel in Washington, D.C. While in the dining room he slipped three of his poems beside the dinner plate of established poet, Vachel Lindsay. The next day, newspapers announced Lindsay had discovered a 'Negro busboy poet.' The moral: get your writing in people's face - no matter how you do it.". The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
"The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place". A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and splept well and warm together and loved each other". The Help by Kathryn Stockett
"Every morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?". Super Sad True Love Story by Greg Shteyngart
"Like the immutability of God or the survival of the soul, I knew they would prove a mirage, but still I grasped for belief. Because I believed in her. ". Cleopatra's Nose : 39 Varieties of Desire by Judith Thurman
"She was often just an ambitious student or an unhappy wife who had asked herself a radically impertinent question: How can one refuse to be owned without renouncing the desire to be possessed?". Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
"Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more". The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
"and still what pain. To carry along and get used to until it's only the past she's grieving for and not any possible present". Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer *
"humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips the more human you are.". Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azir Nafisi
"you get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again"
