»The stories we love best live in us forever.«
- Joanne K. Rowling

»My father picked me up from school one day and we played hockey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped them on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess, but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day, he said, we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything, that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. Its slow. Its methodical. Its exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.«
- Elliot Alderson; Mr. Robot

»Long time ago, Nunnally, Suzaku, and I talked about something. We wondered what happiness would look like if we could give it a physical form. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Suzaku that said that the shape of happiness might resemble glass. His reasoning made sense. He said that even though you don't usually notice it, it's still definitely there. You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. I doubt that anything else could argue its own existence more eloquently.«
- Lelouch Lamperouge; Code Geass

Tom, he was a piper's son,
He learnt to play when he was young,
And all the tune that he could play
Was 'over the hills and far away';
Over the hills and a great way off,
The wind shall blow my top-knot off...

»Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills...That’s why humans are interesting.«
- Sebastian Michaelis; Kuroshitsuji

»A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But once you have overcome it and made it on your own... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.«
- Edward Elric; Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

»Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle, that all things do come at a price, that there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me. A promise that, someday, we'll see each other again.«
- Alphonse Elric; Fullmetal Alchemist

»Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.«
- Roy Mustang; Fullmetal Alchemist

»The scared little me always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean. But you didn't even want a boat or a ship. You wanted wings.«
- Kusakabe Marron; Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

»She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearts a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin - in short do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance and marry the Princess.«
- Phillip "Pip" Pirrip; Great Expectations

»You must know that I have no heart. [...] I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt and, of course, when it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no sympathy - sentiment - nonsense.«
- Estella Havisham; Great Expectations

»I'll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter as I did!«
- Miss Havisham; Great Expectations

»All art is quite useless.«
- Oscar Wilde