"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
Joss Whedon
"Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."
Brad Paisley
"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
"Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you."
Siobhan Vivian, The List
"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."
"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?"
Matt Groening
What's Santa gonna get you?
"I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark."
Lisa Edelstein
"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?"
High Fidelity
"There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'."
Joss Whedon
The one with the shit-ton of books.
"Live free or die, Captain."
"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored."
Oscar Wilde, The Disciple
"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
P.J. O'Rourke
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
Ernest Hemingway
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Both of them have 5 stars, but which one is going to be the best of the bunch?