“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Salem Falls
“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.”
Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXXIII, lines 1–2
Carmina
“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1986)
“Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)
“If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified