But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on. - Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this - the only right is what is after my constitution

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. - H.P. Lovecraft

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. - Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing. - Ayn Rand

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. - Woody Allen

God helps those who strut their stuff. - Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves. - Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Highland Blessings

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever. - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. - Ayn Rand