To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you.

People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different.

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

You might have a past..but guess what? You have a future, too.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.

Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldn’t be saved, Esther’s heart broke a little more.

The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

I always act better when I'm able to curse.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.