Dean Koontz

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)

Suzanne Collins

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."

Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

Jane Austen

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

Jane Austen (Persuasion)

Barbara Kingsolver

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

Lemony Snicket

"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)

Marianne Wiggins

"Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness."

Marianne Wiggins (Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel)

Edith Wharton

"Each time you happen to me all over again. "

Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

Edith Wharton

"She said she knew she was safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.'

Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

Laurie Halse Anderson

"This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind."

Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

Jodi Picoult

"There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."

Jodi Picoult