“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
-Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
-Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
-Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
-John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“But I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.”
-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.”
-Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”
-Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants