Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.

–
Lynne Rae Perkins

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

–
Cherie Priest

It is ‘where we are’ that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

–
Chang-rae Lee

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.

–
Beatrix Potter

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

–
Cassandra Clare

Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on

–
Ibn-e-Safi

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

–
Jack London

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

–
Alexandre Dumas

To say goodbye is to die a little.

–
Raymond Chandler

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.

–
S.E. Hinton