“There’s nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what’ll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueller than any captor.” — Frostbite by Richelle Mead
“How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?” — Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
“If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.” — Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.” — My Friend Leonard by James Frey
“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.” — Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
