"So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance."

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

"And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge."

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

"I feel, at least, that I know him-you-quite well enough to guess what kind of well-meant gesture might be welcomed from me right now...I privately say to you, old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."

Seymour by J.D. Salinger

"I often feel a rather excessive pull toward people who don't overapologize."

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger

"He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most."

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

“‘Don’t Panic.’ It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.”

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

"Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

“Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual relationship”

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

“Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.”

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"And now, if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

Rebel Angels by Libba Bray

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

“From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.”

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

“In the gloom, though, Lyra sensed the presence of the Dust, for the air seemed to be full of dark intentions, like the forms of thoughts not yet born.”

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

“…he did stress, sometimes with the help of a stripped willow branch, that we had to pronounce the Arabic words correctly so God would hear us better.”

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

“There was too much hate in this world, and too much to love.”

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

“Are you referring to the fact that you can’t walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?”

Twilight by Stepehie Meyer

“Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy.”
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams

"Because it's the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I'm working on it. I'm trying to enjoy the process."
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom