Crystal

“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John D. MacDonald-but then I went to regular school and the English teachers started telling me to read 'real' books, so I tried. And you know, I kinda went off reading for a while. I had already been reading literary novels and the classics mixed in with whatever else, but-" She waved a hand. "So I went back to reading whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to-reading had been my greatest pleasure in all the world. I mean I never really watched all that much television, because we were moving around, never really had solid digs until I was thirteen, so reading was everything.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Secret of Everything

“I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.”
― Dalai Lama

“If you are in love with two people, choose the second one; because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― K.M. Golland, Temptation

“Thousands of years ago, when kitties first domesticated humans, we did it so that someone would scratch our butts.”
― Didjeradoo via Jeremy Greenberg