Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap. -Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK)

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

My cold, hard heart exposed, finally, for what it truly was. Fair warning, I thought. I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.
- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

i should know
who i am by now
i walk the record stand somehow
thinking of winter
the name is the splinter inside me
while i wait
-joshua radin, winter

Whoever I am or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. -Josh Gardner

I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will. -Megan Crane, Frenemies

In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.
-Homer

you can doubt anything if you think about it long enough, cause what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that.
-ani difranco

You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. -Good Will Hunting

make me laugh, make me cry, enrage me -- but just don't try to disengage me.

- ani difranco, rush hour

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. -Audrey Hepburn

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
-Marylin Monroe

If Jordan Catalano is, like, nearby, my entire body knows it. Like one of those dogs that point? I'll keep talking and stuff, but my mind won't even know what I'm saying. I keep wondering if there's like, a term for this.
- My So-Called Life

I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wonder what you would think of this little number. I wonder what you would say if you knew.
- Ani DiFranco

Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trail and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings. - Megan Crane, Frenemies

I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed to me that once you happened upon magical places you should stay there, happily ever after. -Megan Crane, Names My Sisters Call me

It's funny how the prospect of love is so much more interesting when you don't actually know the person you're fabricating a fantasy life with. I can't allow reality to get in my way.
- Jill A. Davis, Girls Poker Night

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.
-Lawrence Kushner

Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin,vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough. -Jane Green, Mr. Maybe

I am getting nowhere with you
and I can't let you go
and I cant get through.
- Ani DiFranco

why don’t you sit right down and stay a while?
we like the same things and i like your style
it’s not a secret, why do you keep it?
i’m just sitting on the shelf
- She & Him

She smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles when the world is hers. Summer. And she pulled you in and she bit your lip the grasp of dusk and summer.

- Dusk and Summer

Look, I guarantee there'll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you're the only one for me. -Runaway Bride

'Do I dazzle you?'
'Frequently.'
-Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

I look up to everything you are
In my eyes you do no wrong.
I've loved you for so long
And after all is said and done
You're still you
After all, you're still you.
- Josh Groban, You're Still You

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. -Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

I don't believe in psychology, which say that everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't. -Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Love is not going anywhere. When it is time, you will find someone you love.
- House

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure don't deserve me at my best. -Marilyn Monroe

Four years ago, I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl, who had a boyfriend. And I had to do the hardest thing that I've ever had to do, which was just to... wait. Don't get me wrong, I flirted with her. Pam, I can now admit in front of friends and family, that I do know how to make a photocopy. Didn't need your help that many times. And, uh, do you remember how long it took you to teach me how to drive stick? I've been driving stick since high school, so... For a really long time that's all I had. Little moments with a girl who saw me as a friend. And, a lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl I work with but I think, even then I knew that... I was waiting for my wife.

-The Office

Dear Holly, I don't have much time. I don't mean literally, I mean you're out buying ice cream and you'll be home soon. But I have a feeling this is the last letter because there is only one thing left to tell you. It isn't to go down memory lane or make you buy a lamp, you can take care of yourself without any help from me. It's to tell you how much you move me, how you changed me. You made me a man, by loving me Holly. And for that, I am eternally grateful -- literally. If you can promise me anything, promise me that whenever you're sad, or unsure, or you lose complete faith, that you'll try to see yourself through my eyes. Thank you for the honor of being my wife. I'm a man with no regrets. How lucky am I? You made my life, Holly. But I'm just one chapter in yours. There'll be more, I promise. So here it comes, the big one. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Watch out for that signal, when life as you know it ends. P.S. I will always love you - PS I Love You

If I've learned anything it's that you should have the people who love you around you as long as you possibly can. -Sweet November

There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you ... It's always necessary.
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I have this connection with him, though he doesn't see it. It's like I turn around without a reason I can think of, and he's either passing by or is standing nearby. I can pick him out of a crowd of over a hundred almost instantly sometimes. It's almost as if I can feel his presence. -My So-Called Life

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to have.
-Fried Green Tomatoes

it's gonna be sudden; it's gonna be strange. i'm gonna turn on a dime, give you five cents change.

-ani difranco, outta me, onto you

After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.

- Sex and The City

boys are so confusing. i don't know why they say venus and mars. i mean, mars and venus at least have something in common, they're planets. it's more like mars and a bowl of soup. -gilmore girls

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationships was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose. -Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

I always thought if he could just get it together, grow up - maybe we could do it. Maybe we could really be a family, in the stupid, traditional 'Dan Quayle, golden retriever, grow old together, wear matching jogging suits' kind of way. And then he did get it together - he became that guy. . . and he gets to be that guy with her.
-Gilmore Girls

Do I still love you? Absolutely. There is not a doubt in my mind. Through all my mind, my ego, I was always faithful in my love for you. That I made you doubt it, that is the great mistake of a life full of mistakes. The truth doesn't set us free. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it and all that does, the only thing, is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. - Life As a House

Love is that can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, over the fence, world series kinda stuff. -Angels in the Outfield

Reveal to them everything there is to know about you and let the chips fall where they may. -Meet Joe Black

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
-Neale Walsh

You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see,you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too -- even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

'do you think i'm wonderful?' she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. 'no', he said. 'why? because so many girls are wonderful. i imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. you couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.'
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

But even when our hopes give way to reality, and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we’ve lost to today’s battle, not tomorrow’s war. Here’s the thing about surrender, once you do it, actually give in, you forget why you were fighting in the first place. -Grey's Anatomy

I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can. - The Wonder Years