Bits and pieces of literature...

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." — Albert Camus

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." — Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— E.E. Cummings

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." 

— Lemony Snicket

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." — Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." — Oscar Wilde

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." — C.S. Lewis

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." — Eleanor Roosevelt (This is My Story)

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." — Garrison Keillor

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." — C.S. Lewis

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand." — Charles M. Schulz

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." — J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." — Mark Twain

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." — Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
— Paul Sweeney

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated." — Oscar Wilde

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." 

— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley (Complete Essays 2)

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict." — Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." — Charles Bukowski

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." — Maya Angelou

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up." — Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." — William Shakespeare

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."
— St. Francis of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too." — Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent" — Victor Hugo

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (Fables and Reflections)

"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." 

— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"Destroying things is much easier than making them."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)