Mary Gauthier

J.R. Ward

"I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened."

J.R. Ward

Jorge Luis Borges

"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."

Jorge Luis Borges

Terry Pratchett

"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for a moment.
"No," he said eventually, "what?"
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."

"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

Terry Pratchett

Love

"This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?
"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?
"Yes," she said. "I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me."

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Orson Scott Card

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Orson Scott Card

"Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you"

Orson Scott Card

George Lucas

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas

Jonathan Hull

"It was the chance--just the chance--to come fully alive; to love someone else so completely that you would never again feel alone. That was it, wasn’t it? The promise of being engulfed by love and passion and intimacy; to connect in a way that gently sutured together the souls."

Jonathan Hull

Jack Whyte

"Their sudden intimacy was like the explosive combustion that engulfs and consumes a moth that has fluttered too close to a candle flame; a completely unexpected turn of events that took both of them unawares and swept them irresistibly up and out of themselves even as it hurtled them into each other’s arms."

Jack Whyte

Bertrand Russell

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

Bertrand Russell

Meredith Grey

"I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself. "

Meredith Grey

Hanif Kureishi

"At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?"

Hanif Kureishi

Richard Brautigan

"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."

Richard Brautigan

Oscar Wilde

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

Oscar Wilde