“The fact that Romeo is dopey, lovey-dovey, and it's a corny story. And I was afraid I'd look like a fuffy.”

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.”

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

“Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

“Boy I tell you what, if I were a girl, I'd never shave! I'd look like I'm smuggling around Chewbacca in my underbritches!”

Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist

“Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian