-- Todd Strasser
"We think we control our destinies. But it's all left up to chance."
-- Todd Strasser
"Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to lose... which is what I have become."
--Christopher Paolini, Eragon
"If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy."
--Toni Morrison, The Bluest
Eye
"But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer."
--Toni Morrison,
The Bluest Eye
"Dangerously free. Free to feel whatever he felt--fear, guilt, shame, love, grief, pity. Free to
be tender or violent, to whistle or weep."
--Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"The most wonderful and most beautiful things in life can not be seen or even touched; they must
be felt with the heart."
-- Helen Keller
"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with
words and rejects all shackles."
--Christopher Paolini, Eragon
"I'm an alien trying on human rituals."
--Susan Juby, Alice, I Think
"People who date regularly must die young. This kind of stress can't be good for you."
--Susan Juby, Alice, I Think
"I wouldn't be surprised to hear about a few New Agers going postal--gunning down everyone in their yoga center or whatever."
--Susan Juby, Alice, I Think
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get
it."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Let me feel now what sharp distress I may."
--Charles Dickens
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
--Charlie Brown
"Oh, lift me as a wave, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
--Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
