Ruby

“The boys got up and walked to the class pictures lining the honor-room walls. They looked at faces of young men, staring out at them from the past.
"They're not that different than any of you, are they? Hope in their eyes, just like yours. They believe themselves destined for wonderful things, like many of you. Well, where are those smiles now, boys? What of the hope?" (S. 26)”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― John Keating

“Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Things get worse before they get better.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower