There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!

Jocelyn Soriano

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Hermann Hesse

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Susan Sontag

Ooh, tu tens um ar muito mais saboroso que o Crabbe e o Goyle, Harry

J.K. Rowling

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

... for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Maya Lin

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Bill Vaughan