"As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole."

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

“We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.5, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”

“I'll never recover if he breaks my heart. ~Brooke”

“The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.”

“There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.”

“I'm not interested in fame at all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.”