"The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is pleasure the same as happiness? Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved, or not to be able to love?"

“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1662, Simon and Schuster

“Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?”

Source : "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

“What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?”

“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

“You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.”

“Happy birthday greetings is being sent your way, with everything which is good, for your wonderful day.”

“I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.”

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”