"A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel."

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

“Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.”

Source : Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59

“Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion,”

“I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.”

“In English every word can be verbed.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.”

“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”

“Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”

Source : Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin