“We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.” 
― Muriel Barbery

“To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.” 
― Jerome Groopman

“I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.
I want to exorcise the demons from your past.
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.” 
― Matthew Bellamy

“The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.” 
― Bob Sorge

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Behind us, the man laughed. "Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for a little diversion. There's an empty office right over there, guys."  Marsten raised his hand in thanks. The couple moved on. I let the kiss continue for five more seconds, then pulled away. 
"They're gone," I said.  Marsten frowned, as if surprised-and disappointed-that I'd noticed. I tugged my hair from his hands.  "Okay, coast clear," I said. "Let's go."  He let out a small laugh. "I see I need to brush up on my kissing."  "No, you have that down pat." 
"She says with all the excitement of a teacher grading a math quiz..."  "A-plus. Now let's move. Before someone else comes along.” 
― Kelley Armstrong

“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.” 
― Virginia Woolf

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.” 
― Sanhita Baruah