"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"If you have time to argue, spend it on finding a way to do it!"
Natarle Badgiruel
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
Tadao Ando
"The language you use, the writing is everything."
Diane Sawyer
"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
Richard Harding Davis
"What writing does is to reveal."
Rita Dove
"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
Daphne du Maurier
"The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing."
Marjane Satrapi
"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
Octavia Butler
"No, because when I'm writing, I'm not thinking about my audience."
Terry McMillan
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
Roger Babson
"From the moment they are born, everyone has the right to live."
Lloyd Irving
"Just because the logic is sound, it doesn't mean it's right."
Lloyd Irving
"What will you accomplish by dying? Nothing! There is no meaning in dying!"
Lloyd Irving
"No matter how right your words are, you have to actually carry it out in order for them to have any meaning."
Lloyd Irving
"People who can’t accept those who are different are the ones to blame!"
Lloyd Irving
"No matter how painful things have been, you just can’t dwell on the past."
Lloyd Irving
"No one should have to think that he has to sacrifice his own life."
Colette Brunel
"No, I don't understand, that's why I asked. Are you stupid or something?"
Genis Sage
"In order to change the world, I must first change myself."
Raine Sage
"Don't do anything you'll regret..."
Kratos Aurion
"In order to do something, you must do it yourself, it is not enough to merely rely on someone else and go along with their ideals."
Kratos Aurion
"To win means to make enemies of your opponents and give birth to hatred."
Kratos Aurion
"Whatever will be, will be."
Zelos Wilder
"Even now, to tell the truth, I get tired of all the problems. Sometimes I think it'd be easier if everyone and everything were just destroyed."
Zelos Wilder
"I know that they're normal people, just like you and me. But that's what discrimination is about. Knowing that, and still not being able to shake that feeling..."
Zelos Wilder
"You criticize and attack people for their birth and upbringing - things they cannot change."
Presea Combatir
"But if you allow your kindness to interfere with your judgment, you’re merely weak."
Presea Combatir
"The deeper the wound, the more important it is to overcome it."
Presea Combatir
"It’s easier to hate than to forgive."
Presea Combatir
"Hatred... gives birth to nothing..."
Presea Combatir
"Your will manifests itself in the words you speak. Whether they be curses, or words of joy, the souls of those words yields power."
Regal Bryant
"No matter how hard I try to move forward, I am held back by the sin I have committed. I am so used to the weight of my sin that I am afraid to let it go. It's so easy to simply acknowledge myself as a criminal and let it envelop me in its apathy."
Regal Bryant
"At this moment you have two options: choose what you desire to do or what you must do"
Regal Bryant
"You can’t go forward if you keep looking back."
Luke fon Fabre
"You shouldn't ask for much in life; that way you avoid the disappointment."
Anonymous
"... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
Edward Cullen, from New Moon
"I hear voices in my head and you think you're a freak?"
Edward Cullen
"Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell."
Jacob Black
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
Corinthians 15:26
"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"
J.K. Rowling, from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"People can’t see anything that’s not right in front of them."
Tear Grants
"I don’t think it’s necessary to understand everything rationally."
Tear Grants
Natalia's response, "Some answers you can only find by letting go."
Natalia L.K. Lanvaldear
"Don't worry, the worst that could happen is we all die."
Jade Curtiss
"Unlike in fairy tales, the world doesn’t live happily ever after."
Jade Curtiss
"But curiosity can at times reveal things that were better left unknown."
Jade Curtiss
"Accepting the truth is difficult. But it is also necessary."
Jade Curtiss
"There are two sides to the power people hold. That power cannot be used properly until one recognizes them both."
Jade Curtiss
"It’s so much easier to believe that only your own thoughts and beliefs are absolutely correct."
Guy Cecil
"The greater the loss, the more people need someone to hate for it."
Guy Cecil
"People aren’t so simple that they can accept anything and everything."
Guy Cecil
"People have a weakness for forbidden things."
Guy Cecil
"You shouldn't ask for much in life; that way you avoid the disappointment."
Anonymous
"So naive be he who know not of tragedy."
Anonymous
"The world doesn't have a happily ever after like in fairy tales. More often then not, the ending
comes after a tragedy; and it is not always happy."
Anonymous