influential quotes
"Human beings are such impatient creatures; as if change ever comes lightly or quickly."
Over the years, I have built a personal library of favorite books and movies that have changed my life dramatically in positive and inspirational ways. And with every book, I have highlighted and marked every line that influenced my life or my perspective of it. With every movie that I have seen ten times over, I have noted every quote or action that I loved or even hated, but all of them, I respected. Below is my choice list of quotes, and through each character's words, you see a small piece of the author hidden between the lines. These words are the very thing that breathes life into each and every character I have ever loved and hated, and it is something I have wanted to show through my own words to inspire my own readers. Without the words below, I would never have fallen in love with writing or met the characters that words brought to life.
" 'Congress shall make no law... respecting... an establishment of religion... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.' That's the First Amendment, Mr. Chairman. It's everything we're about if only we'd live up to it! It's the most important part of the contract every citizen has with this country. And even though these contracts - the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! - even though they're just pieces of paper with signatures on them... they're the only contracts we have that are most definitely NOT subject... to renegotiation... not by you, Mr. Chairman...Not by you, Mr. Clyde...Not by anyone, ever. Too many people have paid for this contract in blood. People like Luke Trimble... and all the sons of Lawson, California."
-PETER APPLETON (JIM CARREY) / THE MAJESTIC (MICHAEL SLOANE)
-PETER APPLETON (JIM CARREY) / THE MAJESTIC (MICHAEL SLOANE)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Love is a decision...not a feeling."
-AUNT CONNIE / THE LAST ANNIVERSARY (LIANE MORIARTY)
-AUNT CONNIE / THE LAST ANNIVERSARY (LIANE MORIARTY)
“Love, to my way of thinking, is the emotion one feels when they meet someone who makes them be what they want to be. We feel love toward someone who shows us the light, who pushes us to become what we have always wanted to become but may have never realized. We love the person who makes us love ourselves.”
-ANGELICA SHELTON BELANOV / UNDER THE BLOOD RED MOON (MINA HEPSEN)
-ANGELICA SHELTON BELANOV / UNDER THE BLOOD RED MOON (MINA HEPSEN)
"Happy ever after doesn't mean forever.
It just means time."
-RIVER SONG (ALEX KINGSTON) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG"
It just means time."
-RIVER SONG (ALEX KINGSTON) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG"
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
-CIRCE, DAUGHTER OF HELIOS / CIRCE (MADELINE MILLER)
-CIRCE, DAUGHTER OF HELIOS / CIRCE (MADELINE MILLER)
“Modern creatures aren’t only in a hurry, they’re overly focused on the act of sexual intercourse. It’s far too clinical and narrow a definition. Making love should be about intimacy, about knowing another’s body as well as your own.”
-MATTHEW CLAIRMONT / DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (DEBORAH HARKNESS)
-MATTHEW CLAIRMONT / DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (DEBORAH HARKNESS)
"What if you were really old, and really kind and lonely, your whole race dead. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry."
-AMY POND (KAREN GILLAN) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE BEAST BELOW"
-AMY POND (KAREN GILLAN) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE BEAST BELOW"
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
-RHETT BUTLER (CLARK GABLE) / GONE WITH THE WIND (SIDNEY HOWARD)
-RHETT BUTLER (CLARK GABLE) / GONE WITH THE WIND (SIDNEY HOWARD)
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
-HARRY BURNS (BILLY CRYSTAL) / WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (NORA EPHRON)
-HARRY BURNS (BILLY CRYSTAL) / WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (NORA EPHRON)
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”
-ROBERT BRAULT
-ROBERT BRAULT
“It's like in the great stories...the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think...I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.
That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
-SAMWISE GAMGEE (SEAN ASTIN) / LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (J. R. R. TOLKIEN / PETER JACKSON)
That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
-SAMWISE GAMGEE (SEAN ASTIN) / LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (J. R. R. TOLKIEN / PETER JACKSON)
"Tragedy alters everything."
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne. Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
“It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”
-STARDUST / NEIL GAIMAN
-STARDUST / NEIL GAIMAN
“...but a house could look new on the outside, and be riddled with termites that ate away at its foundations until it crumbled from the strain of trying to hold itself up under their brutal assault; and a single smile could hide profound pain."
-ACHERON / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-ACHERON / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
-CIRCE, DAUGHTER OF HELIOS / CIRCE (MADELINE MILLER)
-CIRCE, DAUGHTER OF HELIOS / CIRCE (MADELINE MILLER)
"I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings show and I thought that bein' strong meant never losing your self-control, but I'm just drunk enough to let go of my pain, to hell with my pride, let it fall like rain from my eyes, tonight I want to cry..."
-KIETH URBAN "TONIGHT I WANT TO CRY"
-KIETH URBAN "TONIGHT I WANT TO CRY"
“Everyone has a past. I have mine, you have yours, and we have ours. No matter what it takes, I will prove to you that our past, no matter how hurtful, didn't ruin the future we could have. Only we can either make that happen or run from it. It's our decision this time. There are no outside influences that can push us one way or the other. There's only you and me and what could be.”
-SEASIDE SECRETS / MELISSA FOSTER
-SEASIDE SECRETS / MELISSA FOSTER
"The difference is this. Pain is a gift. Without the capacity for pain, we can't feel the hurt we inflict."
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "DEATH IN HEAVEN"
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "DEATH IN HEAVEN"
“She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn’t safely criticize anymore, because you didn’t have the right. You’d lost your immunity.”
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
"There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick."
-THE 11TH DOCTOR (MATT SMITH) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "AMY'S CHOICE"
-THE 11TH DOCTOR (MATT SMITH) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "AMY'S CHOICE"
"It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
-DAVID, PRIME MINISTER (HUGH GRANT) / LOVE ACTUALLY (RICHARD CURTIS)
-DAVID, PRIME MINISTER (HUGH GRANT) / LOVE ACTUALLY (RICHARD CURTIS)
"Everybody is important to somebody, somewhere."
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "TWICE UPON A TIME"
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "TWICE UPON A TIME"
"They could look at an old photo together and travel back in time to the same place; they could begin a million conversations with “Do you remember when . . .”; they could hear the first chords of an old song on the radio and exchange glances that said everything without words. Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives. It was as simple and complicated as that."
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
“Life is never the fairy tale they sold us on when we were kids. More often, it’s the nightmare we can never wake from. What they don’t tell us when we’re little is that the trick is to find the one who will be there in the middle of the night to hold us when we’re screaming and tell us that it’ll be alright. The one who doesn’t shirk or run from our nightmares, but who holds us through them and makes sure we never face them alone.”
-THRACE / BORN OF LEGEND (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-THRACE / BORN OF LEGEND (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"Every man dies, not every man truly lives."
-WILLIAM WALLACE (MEL GIBSON) / BRAVEHEART (RANDALL WALLACE)
-WILLIAM WALLACE (MEL GIBSON) / BRAVEHEART (RANDALL WALLACE)
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
-WILLIAM WALLACE (MEL GIBSON) / BRAVEHEART (RANDALL WALLACE)
-WILLIAM WALLACE (MEL GIBSON) / BRAVEHEART (RANDALL WALLACE)
“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.”
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
-ASSASSIN'S CREED
-ASSASSIN'S CREED
“When I knew my mother would be dead in a few months, I had two choices . . .” She looked at him. “I could distance myself from the pain or get closer to it. Maybe because I’d lost my dad without getting a chance to tell him what he meant to me, I decided to get closer. I got so close, her pain and fear became my own. We shared everything and loved each other like we never had when death was some distant thing. In the end, part of me died with her. I’m not recovered from it even now, but I made the conscious choice to enter the darkness with her. Everyone I know who’s lost someone they love has voiced regrets—they wish they’d done this or that or loved them more. I have no regrets. None.”
-JOANNA TEALE / WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE STARS (GLENDY VANDERAH)
-JOANNA TEALE / WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE STARS (GLENDY VANDERAH)
"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
-WINNIE THE POOH / WINNIE THE POOH (A.A. MILNE)
-WINNIE THE POOH / WINNIE THE POOH (A.A. MILNE)
"I just wanna talk to you. About a word we don't hear much anymore: 'sacrifice.' It's not what I'd call a modern word. People hear the word 'sacrifice' and people become afraid that something will be taken away from them. Or they'll have to give up something they can't live without. Sacrifice to them means loss in a world telling us we can have it all. But I believe true sacrifice is a victory, because it requires our free will to give up something or someone you love for something or someone you love more than yourself. I won't lie to you. It's a gamble. Sacrifice won't take away the pain of loss. But it wins the battle against bitterness. The bitterness that dims the light on all that is of true value in our lives."
-REVEREND STEPHENS (RANDY REDD) / BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (RICHARD LAGRAVENESE)
-REVEREND STEPHENS (RANDY REDD) / BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (RICHARD LAGRAVENESE)
"Things go wrong. You can't explain it, you can't predict it. Killing yourself won't bring your dad back. I'm sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you."
-BILL HARDING (BILL PAXTON) / TWISTER (MICHAEL CRICHTON/ANNE-MARIE MARTIN)
-BILL HARDING (BILL PAXTON) / TWISTER (MICHAEL CRICHTON/ANNE-MARIE MARTIN)
"I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate. It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves...you could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful."
-YVAINE (CLAIRE DANES) / STARDUST (NEIL GAIMAN)
-YVAINE (CLAIRE DANES) / STARDUST (NEIL GAIMAN)
“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
"We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them; but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it. Ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man. A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget."
-EVEY HAMMOND (NATALIE PORTMAN) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
-EVEY HAMMOND (NATALIE PORTMAN) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
“The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world, or a relationship…everything has its time. And everything ends.”
-SARAH JANE SMITH (ELISABETH SLADEN) / DOCTOR WHO (TOBY WHITHOUSE) "SCHOOL REUNION"
-SARAH JANE SMITH (ELISABETH SLADEN) / DOCTOR WHO (TOBY WHITHOUSE) "SCHOOL REUNION"
“She was grown up; she was twenty-nine! It was only recently that she’d been walking home from the hairdresser’s, feeling gorgeous, and a gaggle of teenage girls walked by, and the sound of their strident giggles made her send a message back through time to her fourteen-year-old self: “Don’t worry, it all works out. You get a personality, you get a job, you work out what to do with your hair, and you get a boy who thinks you’re beautiful.” She’d felt so together, as if all the teenage angst and the failed relationships before Nick had all been part of a perfectly acceptable plan that was leading to this moment, when she would be twenty-nine years old and everything would finally be just as it should be.”
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
-ALICE LOVE / WHAT ALICE FORGOT (LIANE MORIARTY)
“Magic is desire made real.”
-DIANA BISHOP (THERESA PALMER) / DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (DEBORAH HARKNESS)
-DIANA BISHOP (THERESA PALMER) / DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (DEBORAH HARKNESS)
"You forget your life after a while...the life you had before. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls on a string. Cut the knot, they scatter across the floor, rolling into dark corners, never to be found again. So you move on. And eventually you forget what the pearls even looked like. Or at least you try."
-CLAIRE BEAUCHAMP / THE OUTLANDER (DIANA GABALDON)
-CLAIRE BEAUCHAMP / THE OUTLANDER (DIANA GABALDON)
"Then he shall be named Acheron, for the river of woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey will be long, dark, and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will travel through life alone and abandoned, ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one, no one else ever will."
-THE ORACLE / ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-THE ORACLE / ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“I have my own personal God. I walk over to my favorite tree, look upon the skies and pray."
-SARAGOLEA / BODI ME'EN TRIBE, LOWER OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA
-SARAGOLEA / BODI ME'EN TRIBE, LOWER OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA
"That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment, you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away all at the same time."
-JOSIE GELLER (DREW BARRYMORE) / NEVER BEEN KISSED (ABBY KOHN/MARC SILVERSTEIN)
-JOSIE GELLER (DREW BARRYMORE) / NEVER BEEN KISSED (ABBY KOHN/MARC SILVERSTEIN)
“When I say, ‘I love you,’ it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman. You're the one...”
-SPIKE (JAMES MARSTERS) / BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (JOSS WHEDON)
-SPIKE (JAMES MARSTERS) / BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (JOSS WHEDON)
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
-STARDUST / NEIL GAIMAN
-STARDUST / NEIL GAIMAN
"Because men do not fear swords. They fear monsters. They run from them. By putting one village to the stake, I spared ten more. Sometimes the world no longer needs a hero. Sometimes what it needs is a monster."
-VLAD (LUKE EVANS) / DRACULA UNTOLD (MATT SAZAMA & BURK SHARPLESS)
-VLAD (LUKE EVANS) / DRACULA UNTOLD (MATT SAZAMA & BURK SHARPLESS)
"I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE."
-JOHN GALT / ATLAS SHRUGGED, OATH OF THE VALLEY (AYN RAND)
-JOHN GALT / ATLAS SHRUGGED, OATH OF THE VALLEY (AYN RAND)
"A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it.
Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of
itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it,
blowing up a building can change the world."
-V (HUGO WEAVING) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of
itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it,
blowing up a building can change the world."
-V (HUGO WEAVING) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
“Every man builds his world in his own image…He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he [relinquishes] his power, he [relinquishes] the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. Whoever preserves a single thought uncorrupted by any concession to the will of others, whoever brings into reality a matchstick or a patch of garden made in the image of his thought--he, and to that extent, is a man, and that extent is the sole measure of his virtue.”
-DR. AKSTON / PG 789 OF ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
-DR. AKSTON / PG 789 OF ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
“I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the beginning from the shape of later events."
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
"Something moves ahead of them — a white spark of light — and suddenly she stops short and half-turns to him, already in the circle of his arm, and she is warm and soft and delicate and he is kissing her. And he is astonished. He doesn’t work like this; his body doesn’t do things without his permission. It is his instrument as much as the piano, and he has always been in perfect command of it. But she tastes sweet, like apples and copper, and her body in his arms is trembling. She is so small; his arms go around her, to steady her, and he is lost. He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his feet and he clings to her, small as she is, as if she could hold him up. His palms smooth down her back. He can feel her breathing against him; a gasp in between kisses. Her thin fingers are in his hair, on the back of his neck, tangling gently, and he remembers the medianox flower and the first time he saw it and thought: here is something too beautiful to properly belong in this world."
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
“Chronia apostraph, anthrice mi achi.”
Atlantean: roughly translated it means ‘time moves on, people do not’.
-ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
Atlantean: roughly translated it means ‘time moves on, people do not’.
-ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.”
-SAVITAR / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-SAVITAR / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
Kate: "Because I love him! And I'm afraid that if he doesn't come back that I'll - it'll hurt so much that I'll just shrivel up and I'll never be able to love anyone ever again."
Luc: "You say that now, but... after a time, you would forget. First, you would forget his chin, and then his nose, and after a while, you would struggle to remember the exact color of his eyes, and one day you wake up and, pfft, he's gone: his voice, his smell, his face. He will have left you. And then you can begin again."
-KATE & LUC (MEG RYAN & KEVIN KLINE) / FRENCH KISS (ADAM BROOKS)
Luc: "You say that now, but... after a time, you would forget. First, you would forget his chin, and then his nose, and after a while, you would struggle to remember the exact color of his eyes, and one day you wake up and, pfft, he's gone: his voice, his smell, his face. He will have left you. And then you can begin again."
-KATE & LUC (MEG RYAN & KEVIN KLINE) / FRENCH KISS (ADAM BROOKS)
"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door.
And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."
-IRIS SIMPKINS (KATE WINSLET) / THE HOLIDAY (NANCY MEYERS)
And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."
-IRIS SIMPKINS (KATE WINSLET) / THE HOLIDAY (NANCY MEYERS)
“The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.”
TOMBSTONE EPITAPH OF REBECCA WYNN / FALLEN TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
TOMBSTONE EPITAPH OF REBECCA WYNN / FALLEN TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”
-ANSELM / THE OUTLANDER, PG 161 (DIANA GABALDON)
-ANSELM / THE OUTLANDER, PG 161 (DIANA GABALDON)
“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”
-BLAIRE WYNN / FALLEN TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
-BLAIRE WYNN / FALLEN TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
"How can anyone be afraid of love?" She asked. "How can they not?" His face was completely aghast. "When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that?”
-ACHERON / DEVIL MAY CRY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-ACHERON / DEVIL MAY CRY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"No matter how hard we try, no matter how much we plan or prepare, there will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us. I'm not a coward. I never have been. And there is nowhere else I plan to be, except beside you. Forever. Be it on earth, or here in this hellhole, if that's what it takes. I will always be with you."
-LYDIA / THE GUARDIAN (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-LYDIA / THE GUARDIAN (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
-CHRISTIAN / MOULIN ROUGE (BAZ LUHRMANN)
-CHRISTIAN / MOULIN ROUGE (BAZ LUHRMANN)
“My features had not changed, but it seemed to me like some of his wisdom had marked my expression, that a little of his compassion could be traced in the shape of my mouth, and hints of his patience were evident on my brow.”
-EDWARD CULLEN / MIDNIGHT SUN (STEPHENIE MEYER)
-EDWARD CULLEN / MIDNIGHT SUN (STEPHENIE MEYER)
"It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. I hope that, whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope, most of all, is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. "
-VALERIE (NATASHA WIGHTMAN) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
-VALERIE (NATASHA WIGHTMAN) / V FOR VENDETTA (ALAN MOORE)
“Things end. That's all. Everything ends and its always sad. But everything begins again, too, and that's always happy. Be happy.”
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO"
-THE 12TH DOCTOR (PETER CAPALDI) / DOCTOR WHO (STEVEN MOFFAT) "THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO"
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred. Right or wrong. We are all capable of lashing out when we’re in pain. No one, not even you or I, is immune from that. As Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles."
-SAVITAR / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-SAVITAR / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss – and man is weak."
-VAN HELSING / DRACULA (BRAM STOKER)
-VAN HELSING / DRACULA (BRAM STOKER)
"Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth."
-JOHN GALT / PT.3 CH.7 ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
-JOHN GALT / PT.3 CH.7 ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
"He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
-CH.3 THE GREAT GATSBY (F. SCOTT FITZGERALD)
-CH.3 THE GREAT GATSBY (F. SCOTT FITZGERALD)
"Then she was conscious of nothing but the sensations of her body, because her body acquired the sudden power to let her know her most complex values by direct perception. Just as her eyes had the power to translate wave lengths of energy into sight, just as her ears had the power to translate vibrations into sound, so her body now had the power to translate the energy that had moved all the choices of her life, into immediate sensory perception. It was not the pressure of a hand that made her tremble, but the instantaneous sum of its meaning, the knowledge that it was his hand, that it moved as if her flesh were his possession, that its movement was his signature of acceptance under the whole of that achievement which was herself—it was only a sensation of physical pleasure, but it contained her worship of him, of everything that was his person and his life—from the night of the mass meeting in a factory in Wisconsin, to the Atlantis of a valley hidden in the Rocky Mountains, to the triumphant mockery of the green eyes of the superlative intelligence above a worker's figure at the foot of the tower--it contained her pride in herself and that it should be she whom he had chosen as his mirror, that it should be her body which was now giving him the sum of his existence, as his body was giving her the sum of hers. These were the things it contained—but what she knew was only the sensation of the movement of his hand on her breasts."
-DAGNY TAGGART / ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
-DAGNY TAGGART / ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
"The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it. "
-VANE / NIGHT PLAY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-VANE / NIGHT PLAY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
-ATTICUS FINCH / TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (HARPER LEE)
-ATTICUS FINCH / TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (HARPER LEE)
"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom...not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution...but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
-PRESIDENT THOMAS J. WHITMORE (BILL PULLMAN) / INDEPENDENCE DAY (DEAN DEVLIN/ROLAND EMMERICH)
-PRESIDENT THOMAS J. WHITMORE (BILL PULLMAN) / INDEPENDENCE DAY (DEAN DEVLIN/ROLAND EMMERICH)
"Yes, it is perfect. Your white gown swathed in the blue-black mantle of night.
I am only a voice, and you are a point of light."
-CYRANO / ACT3 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (EDMOND ROSTAND)
I am only a voice, and you are a point of light."
-CYRANO / ACT3 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (EDMOND ROSTAND)
“Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t.
Be a man.”
-ABE WYNN / NEVER TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
Be a man.”
-ABE WYNN / NEVER TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
"His lips pressed against mine, then parted. And he kissed me. Really kissed me- arms tightening around me, mouth moving against mine, firm, like he'd made up his mind that this was what he wanted and he wasn't backing down again. I slid my arms around his neck. His tightened around me and he scooped me up, lifting me off my feet, kissing me like he was never going to stop, and I kissed him back the same way, like I didn't want him to ever stop. It was a perfect moment, one where nothing else mattered. All I could feel was him. All I could taste was his kiss. All I could hear was the pounding of his heart. All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it. This was what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care.
I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be."
-CHLOE SAUNDERS / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be."
-CHLOE SAUNDERS / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
“Even the most primate societies have an innate respect for the insane.”
-THE MOTORCYCLE BOY / RUMBLE FISH (S. E. HINTON)
-THE MOTORCYCLE BOY / RUMBLE FISH (S. E. HINTON)
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally.
I don't think he knows.”
-JOHNNY / THE OUTSIDERS (S. E. HINTON)
I don't think he knows.”
-JOHNNY / THE OUTSIDERS (S. E. HINTON)
"It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul."
-ACHERON / ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-ACHERON / ACHERON (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do with it. You are beautiful."
-IAN / THE HOST (STEPHENIE MEYER)
-IAN / THE HOST (STEPHENIE MEYER)
"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end."
-BELLA SWAN / TWILIGHT, BOOK 1 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
-BELLA SWAN / TWILIGHT, BOOK 1 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
"I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try."
-ZAREK / DANCE WITH THE DEVIL (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-ZAREK / DANCE WITH THE DEVIL (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.'"
-CYRANO / ACT3 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (EDMOND ROSTAND)
-CYRANO / ACT3 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (EDMOND ROSTAND)
“It was called love. The hardest thing in the world to find and keep, but the one thing that made the worst imaginable hell tolerable. More than hope, it was truly the light that guided the lost to safety and kept them sane in the midst of utter chaos.”
-BETHANY / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-BETHANY / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life…that you don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say ‘no.’ You have the guts to do what’s right, when everyone else just runs away.”
-ROSE TYLER (BILLIE PIPER) / DOCTOR WHO (RUSSELL T. DAVIES) "THE PARTING OF WAYS"
"I was here all those years," he said, "within your reach, inside your own realm, watching your struggle, your loneliness, your longing, watching you in a battle you thought you were fighting for me, a battle in which you were supporting my enemies and taking an endless defeat —I was here, hidden by nothing but an error of your sight, as Atlantis is hidden from men by nothing but an optical illusion—I was here, waiting for the day when you would see, when you would know that by the code of the world you were supporting, it's to the darkest bottom of the underground that all the things you valued would have to be consigned and that it's there that you would have to look. I was here. I was waiting for you. I love you, Dagny. I love you more than my life, I who have taught men how life is to be loved. I've taught them also never to expect the unpaid for—and what I did tonight, I did it with full knowledge that I would pay for it and that my life might have to be the price..."
-JOHN GALT / ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
-JOHN GALT / ATLAS SHRUGGED (AYN RAND)
"I take the good with the bad, together. I can't love people in slices."
-KING ARTHUR (SEAN CONNERY) / THE FIRST KNIGHT (WILLIAM NICHOLSON)
-KING ARTHUR (SEAN CONNERY) / THE FIRST KNIGHT (WILLIAM NICHOLSON)
"They didn't realize how they were suffocating their potential until it was nothing more than a stillborn dream."
-MISSY / RAGE (JACKIE MORSE KESSLER)
-MISSY / RAGE (JACKIE MORSE KESSLER)
"Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science."
-RICK SANCHEZ (JUSTIN ROILAND) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "RICK POTION NO. 9"
-RICK SANCHEZ (JUSTIN ROILAND) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "RICK POTION NO. 9"
“She's amazing. No... she's perfect. Everything about her is fucking perfect," I said aloud. "I don't just love her, she owns me. Completely. I'd do anything for her.”
-RUSH FINLAY / NEVER TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
-RUSH FINLAY / NEVER TOO FAR (ABBI GLINES)
"When I heard the Earth-song, I was no longer brave; my avarice cooled like lust in the chill of the grave."
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"He is drowning, and it is too late. He reaches for her like an addict reaching hopelessly for the drug he has sworn not to touch again, having decided it is better to burn up in one final blaze than live forever without it."
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."
-J. D. SALINGER
-J. D. SALINGER
“I wanted to walk over there. I wanted to curl up beside him, lean against him, talk to him. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wanted to tell him everything would be okay. And I wanted him to tell me the same thing. I didn't care if it was true or not- I just wanted to say it. To hear it, to feel his arms around me, hear the rumble of his words, that deep chuckle that made my pulse race.”
-CHLOE SAUNDERS / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
-CHLOE SAUNDERS / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom--one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."
-JOHN KEATS
-JOHN KEATS
“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”
BETHANY / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
BETHANY / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"...I'm not finished! As I came in here, I heard those words, "Cradle of Leadership". Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And it has fallen here. It has fallen. Makers of men, Creators of leaders. Be careful what kind of leaders you're producing here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong. I'm not a judge or jury, but I can tell you this: He won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that, my friends, is called integrity. That's called courage. Now that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie. He's come to the crossroads. He has chosen a path. It's the right path. It's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey. You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee. It's a valuable future. Believe me. Don't destroy it. Protect it. Embrace it. It's gonna make you proud one day, I promise you."
LT. COL. FRANK SLADE (AL PACINO) / SCENT OF A WOMAN (GIOVANNI ARPINO / (Screenplay) BO GOLDMAN)
LT. COL. FRANK SLADE (AL PACINO) / SCENT OF A WOMAN (GIOVANNI ARPINO / (Screenplay) BO GOLDMAN)
"Rick, the only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness. You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse. And I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it's your mind within your control. You chose to come here, you chose to talk to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your universe - and yet you are dripping with rat blood and feces, your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people... well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."
DR. WONG (SUSAN SARANDON) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "PICKLE RICK"
DR. WONG (SUSAN SARANDON) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "PICKLE RICK"
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
-MARY BENNETT / PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (JANE AUSTEN)
-MARY BENNETT / PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (JANE AUSTEN)
"You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy."
-EDWARD CULLEN / NEW MOON, CH 23 PG 510 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
-EDWARD CULLEN / NEW MOON, CH 23 PG 510 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
“There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a person’s mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very privileged others. To pronounce such a name, either one’s own or someone else', is to invite jeopardy.”
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
-VIDA WINTER / THE THIRTEENTH TALE (DIANE SETTERFIELD)
“Just remember, family isn’t perfect.
It’s just perfectly ours.”
-SHAHARA DAGAN WADE / BORN OF FURY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
It’s just perfectly ours.”
-SHAHARA DAGAN WADE / BORN OF FURY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”
-STYXX / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-STYXX / STYXX (SHERRILYN KENYON)
"Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic."
-SAM BALDWIN (TOM HANKS) / SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (JEFF ARCH)
-SAM BALDWIN (TOM HANKS) / SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (JEFF ARCH)
“Before you...my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason...and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
-EDWARD CULLEN / NEW MOON, CH 23 PG 514 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
-EDWARD CULLEN / NEW MOON, CH 23 PG 514 (STEPHENIE MEYER)
“Listen with your eyes. Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”
-DANCER HAUK / BORN OF FURY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
-DANCER HAUK / BORN OF FURY (SHERRILYN KENYON)
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
-PETER PAN / PETER PAN (J.M. BARRIE)
"And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go."
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
-JACE WAYLAND / CITY OF BONES (CASSANDRA CLARE)
JACE'S POINT OF VIEW OF GREENHOUSE SCENE
"You were just worried about me."
An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah"
I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it"
He put his fingers under my chin. "I absolutely think your worth it."
"But you don't think you are." His mouth opened. Shut.
"That's what this is about, Derek. You won't let us worry about you
because you don't think you're worth it. But I do. I absolutely do.”
-CHLOE SAUNDERS & DEREK SOUZA / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah"
I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it"
He put his fingers under my chin. "I absolutely think your worth it."
"But you don't think you are." His mouth opened. Shut.
"That's what this is about, Derek. You won't let us worry about you
because you don't think you're worth it. But I do. I absolutely do.”
-CHLOE SAUNDERS & DEREK SOUZA / THE RECKONING (KELLEY ARMSTRONG)
"And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass...and I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
-CHUCK NOLAND (TOM HANKS) / CASTAWAY (WILLIAM BROYLES JR.)
-CHUCK NOLAND (TOM HANKS) / CASTAWAY (WILLIAM BROYLES JR.)
"Having a family doesn’t mean that you stop being an individual. You know the best thing you can do for the people that depend on you? Be honest with them, even if it means setting them free."
-MR. MEESEEKS (JUSTIN ROILAND) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "MEESEEKS AND DESTROY"
-MR. MEESEEKS (JUSTIN ROILAND) / RICK AND MORTY (JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON) "MEESEEKS AND DESTROY"