*So I'm just collecting quotes for a rainy day.  Some I find in random places and others I will probably find from contests or other such places.  I do not intend to steal these so much as have a place to peruse them for future use in case I need inspiration (or in case someone else does as well).  I would post pictures but apparently the last time I did that, all the images broke or something...

 

Reputation is a trap into which many people are willing to fall.

Family is not about blood.  It's about who's willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.

If you have the power to make someone happy, do it.  The world needs more of that.

Fall in love with the person who enjoys your madness, not an idiot who forces you to be normal.

In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart.  You may never know when you have that chance again.

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.

Rain falls because the clouds can no longer handle the weight.  Tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.

Life is better when you're laughing.

The best place in the world is in the arms of someone who will not only hold you at your best, but will pick you up and hug you tight at your weakest moment.

We all have a story to tell, whether we whisper or yell.

Stop trying to change someone who doesn't want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words, and ignoring their actions. Stop giving your all to a person who gives you nothing. Stop fighting for a relationship when you're standing in the ring alone. Stop breaking your own heart.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

I may seem quiet and reserved, but if you mess with those I love, I will open up a world of crazy that will make your scariest nightmares seem like lollipops and ice cream.

She said, "don't get too close. It's dark inside. It's where my deamons hide."
And I answered, "get too close, there is a hell inside of me, it's where your demons can live."

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word.

And suddenly you just know... it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demigods and would-be gods; out of all of that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her.

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you because they can't handle everything that's right about you.

Until we have seen someone's darkness we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

When you're pushed, killing is as easy as breathing.

People build up walls not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Love sometimes comes like a dream and leaves like a nightmare.

You don't need a reason to help people.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. 

Sometimes the strongest among us are the ones who smile through silent pain, cry behind closed doors, and fight battles nobody knows about.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

She was drowning but nobody saw her struggle.

"Lie to me again," she whispered.
"I love you," he said.

“Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.” - Iain Thomas

“In the end, it’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.” - Jennifer E. Smith, "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight"

“It was nice being around the family again. Reminds me just how much I don’t miss them.” - Derek Landy, "Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire"

“You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart” - W.H. Auden, "Looking for Alaska" ~ John Green

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop out of your world.” - Jodi Picoult, "Leaving Time"

“Intelligence is so y. It turns me on more than muscles and taut abs.” - Krist & Becca Ritchie, "Kiss the Sky"

“I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day.” - Courtney Cole, "Nocte"

“I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he’d let me do it again.” - Amy Harmon, "The Law of Moses"

“Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?” - Jenny Han, "To All the Boys I've Loved Before"

“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.” - William Chapman

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

"Stolen kisses are always the sweetest."

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The world is but a canvas of our imagination."

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."

"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth, than adore me for telling you lies."

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things."

If you're brave to say "goodbye", life will reward you with a new "hello". - Paulo Coelho

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance. - Alan W. Watts

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it. - Robin Sharma

Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably. - James Dean

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. - Rodney Dangerfield

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. - Hedy Lamarr

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else. - Will Rogers

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. - Christopher Morely

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano De Crescenzo

Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. - Walter Savage Landor

Cure for an obsession: get another one. - Mason Cooley

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. - Anonymous/Unknown

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. - Gary Allan

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. - Greg King

With love one can live even without happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls... - Edgar Allan Poe

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. - Blaise Pascal

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. - Stephen King

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect. - Unknown

If I had my life to live again, I'd find you sooner. - Kobi Yamada

"I like nonsense, It wakes up the brain cells."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat."

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."

"If you don't love me, it does not matter,  anyway I can love for the both of us."

"Jealousy is the grave of affection."

Leaving you is hard, forgetting you is harder, but loving you is the hardest.

How can you be the prince of someplace you might never see again?

You will never walk again. But you will fly.

It was not dead. Just broken. Like me, I'm not dead either.

All men must die.

Only one thing that matters. You.

Family, duty, honour, is that the right order?

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

I wish I was the monster you think I am.

Hypocrisy is a boil. Lancing a boil is never pleasant.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain of who you are or what you want, they can not know what you are like to do next.

The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted.

Careful. I'm the last friend you've got.

I'm not ashamed of loving you, only the things I've done to hide it.

Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

If you waste time trying to get people to love you, you'll end up the most popular dead man in town.

I don't want to be most of us.

I want the part of you that you refuse to give to anyone.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster.  -  Nietzsche

Always help someone.  You might be the only who does.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.

Love doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be true.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama

I didn't say 'I love you' to hear it back.  I said it to make sure you knew.

If you're looking for a happy ending and can't seem to find one, maybe it's time for a new beginning instead.

Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Secretly, we're all a little bit more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

In a world where you can be anything: be kind.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

The successful have failed more times than the spectator has even tried.

“I’m surrounded by idiots.” – Lion King

“You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course.” – Treasure Planet

“This is my family. I found it all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah - still good.” – Lilo & Stitch

“You’re right. Let’s go find him and give him a medal. The “Not-As-Much-Of-A-Jerk-As-You-Could-Have-Been Award”!” – Avatar the Last Airbender

“Be nice, have fun, play nice with the other kids. Unless the other kids wanna fight, then you kick the other kids .” – Mulan

“I know you've been hurt, but it's just possible she's been as lost and alone as you.” – Anastasia

“Look, you're really cute kid, but I don't know what you're saying!” – Finding Nemo

“People are quick to judge and slow to correct themselves.” – Assassin’s Creed Revelations

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.” – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

“The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.” – Hayao Miyazaki

“One wrong move and you get an arrow in the . Just so you know.” – The Walking Dead

"I am sorry, but I cannot be friends with a goddess, because I have signed a contract with a devil.” – Code Geass

“Don't take your clothes off here!” – Free!

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.” – Pride and Prejudice

“Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.” – The Mark of Athena

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.” – The Last Olympian

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.” – The Night Circus

“He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.” – City of Glass

“I’d rather believe that there is a place where all the people you miss are together.” – Wu Yifan

“My dear cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”   – The Sea of Monsters

“Turns out my life is just a long series of events where I've made myself look stupid.” – Dan Howell

“Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that we carved into our souls.”  – Angel Beats!

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

“Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me.  I was my father's daughter after all.  My nightmares were made of darker things.” – The Madman's Daughter

“Once upon a time, an angel and a demon fell in love.  It did not end well.” – Daughter of Smoke and Bone

“You wanted to be treated like grown ups?  Well, that includes both the good and the bad.” – United We Spy

“My soul sees its equal in you. ” – The Wrath and the Dawn

“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.” – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I will stand by your side even if it means outlawing the rules in heaven.” – Fushigi Yuugi

“I'm just a stalker.” – Kaichou wa Maid Sama

“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly.” – The Great Gatsby

“You don't understand the unbearable beauty of being you.” – This Shattered World

“Those bound by superficial rules who do not use their pawns to the utmost are fools.” – Black Butler

“Love well, if not wisely.” – Prince of Shadows

“Guys do ridiculous things for love.” – Spirit Bound

“If everything worked out by saying sorry, then why would there be laws in the world and why would there be police?” – Hana Yori Dango

“They weren't looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.” – The Outsiders

“Love is the most selfish of all passions.” – The Three Musketeers 

“I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.” – Pandora Hearts

“No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.” – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

Shallow waters are noisy; deep waters are silent

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take

Don't play with fire if you're not willing to burn

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

But without the dark we'd never see the stars

At night when the stars light up my room, I sit by myself talking to the moon

You smelled like smoke, and tasted like fire, you hurt like a burn, now you're just a scar

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition

Impossible only means you haven't found the solution yet

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day

How can something so bad feel so good?

We are what we repeatedly do, excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional

It is easy to hate and difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get

The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

I think I'd miss you even if we never met.

Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

Sometimes it's us who let the monsters in.

Something inside is hurting you- that's why you need cigarettes or whiskey, or music so ing loud you can't think. 

Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed and hope you fall asleep before you fall apart.

It's so strange that autumn is so beautiful, yet everything is dying.

I only push you away because I'm scared to show you what I am inside.

Three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon and the truth.

The cloud never comes from the point on the horizon from which we watch for it.

One day, this pain will make sense to you.

Everyone wants to be your sun, but I want to be your moon, so I can light up your darkest moments when your sun isn't around."

"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."

"His mind is filled with beautiful things,  past revealations and future sins. He takes me to places I've never been, to the edge of light where darkness begins."

"Sometimes I miss you and it hurts like hell."

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."

"Always you wear a mask...to hide the soul that is within you."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

"Turn your face to the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you."

"You weren't just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky."

 

*More to come as I find them.  ^_^