Books are — Lauren Oliver

[About Books]
“Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them - the best ones - are doors."

Lauren Oliver

Pandemonium

Caring — Verda Colvin

“At the end of the day everybody really cares about everybody else. We’re just all trying to find a way to do that."

Judge Verda Colvin

11alive interview

You are not trash — Verda Colvi

“Stop acting like you’re trash."

Judge Verda Colvin

"Consider the Consequences" class

Being concerned — Laura Hardy

“when you were concerned about someone who had always been close to you, you tended to leap at tiny details and magnify them."

Laura Hardy

Dark Fantasy

Unconscious Decisions — Peter W. Murphy

“A lot of our opinions, attitudes and beliefs about people are the result of unconscious decisions about the way it is."

Peter W. Murphy

Always Know What To Say

The Truth of Silence — Pink

“The quiet scares me ‘cause it screams the truth"

P!nk

Sober [Funhouse]

Making Fate — Imagine Dragons

“They say it's what you make
I say it's up to fate "

Imagine Dragons

Demons [Night Visions]

Greed — Imagine Dragons

“No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed"

Imagine Dragons

Demons [Night Visions]

Life's Help — Alanis Morissette

“life has a funny way of helping you"

Alanis Morissette

Ironic [Jagged Little Pill]

Life Surprise — Alanis Morissette

“life has a funny way of sneaking up on you"

Alanis Morissette

Ironic [Jagged Little Pill]

Your Feelings — Glee Cast

“if you feel the same
how am I supposed to know?"

Glee Cast

Pretending [Glee: The Music, Volume 6]

Getting Angry — Dean Koontz

“Maybe if a lot more people had gotten angry enough decades ago, the country wouldn’t have reached such perilous straits"

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Finding Real Love — Dean Koontz

“Real love, true and deep, wasn’t easy to find even once. Nearly impossible to find twice."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Respecting People — Dean Koontz

“The world’s crawling with people who don’t respect anyone or anything, but we’re supposed to respect them"

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

The World we've made — Dean Koontz

“I hate this world we’ve made."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Choosing our loved ones — Glee Cast

“imagine that … we can choose the ones we love"

Glee Cast

Pretending [Glee: The Music, Volume 6]

Feeling — Glee Cast

“Will we ever say the words we’re feeling?"

Glee Cast

Pretending [Glee: The Music, Volume 6]

Own Rules — Pink

“I don’t play your rules, I make my own."

P!nk

'Cuz I Can [I'm Not Dead]

Life of Sin — Pink

“I’m ****ed because I live a life of sin."

P!nk

'Cuz I Can [I'm Not Dead]

TV News Ratings — Dean Koontz

“Those bastards on the TV news, they always have to show you the blood, get the ratings."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Being Strong — Dean Koontz

“no one should ever have to be so strong."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

No Neighbors — Dean Koontz

“The news unfailingly confirmed the wisdom of living in a far place with no neighbors in view."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Fragile Body — Dean Koontz

“Worse than the pain was the sense of violation and vulnerability, a terrible frantic awareness of the true fragility of the human body."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Twisted Facts — 12 Angry Men

“I'm sick and tired of facts! You can twist 'em anyway you like"

Juror #10 (Ed Begley)

12 Angry Men

Reasonable Doubt — 12 Angry Men

“we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system."

Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)

12 Angry Men

What Truth — 12 Angry Men

“I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know."

Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)

12 Angry Men

Prejudiced Truth — 12 Angry Men

“prejudice always obscures the truth."

Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)

12 Angry Men

Sympathic Cop — Dean Koontz

“Sometimes a cop couldn't do much more for a victim than nod in sympathy and shake his head in sorry amazement at the depths into which the city was sinking."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Fashionable Lack of Caring — Dean Koontz

“it's not fashionable to give a damn these days."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

University Fools — Dean Koontz

“What fools do universities produce these days?"

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon

Envy as Theft — Dean Koontz

“envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions... then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money."

Dean Koontz

Winter Moon