"Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance."

“People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more”

“Our choices determine our destiny”

Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

“Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.”

“I need a prison in order to dream of being free.”

“Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.”

“Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.”

“Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.433, Pan Macmillan

“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”