Mainsteam Quotes & Sayings

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. — Gayle Forman

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody — Susan B. Anthony

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden. — Margot Livesey

He took her face in his bloody hands. I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won't lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive. — Melina Marchetta