“If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t do it any differently.” – Playing by Heart

“When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.” -Marya Hornbacher

“I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” Sophia Loren

“It’s not easy living a lie, pretending everything’s perfect when it’s not. I learned that lesson a while ago.” – Scandal

“I think I’ll go anti-love. Really, who needs it? Butterflies in the tummy, heart skipping beats…that can’t be safe.”

“There’s just so much pressure to have a plus one. Like if you don’t, you’re damaged or broken.” – Beauty and the Beast

“Abby: Don’t talk to me about tough calls or names on the door…When Charles fractured three of my ribs and broke my jaw and threw me out into the snow in my nightgown, Olivia Pope took a tire iron and broke his knee cap and got me the best divorce attorney in the state and got me out of that marriage. It’s what Olivia does. It’s who you are. You are the gladiator. I would gladly follow you over a cliff, but you’ve gotta show up. You gotta be a warrior. You don’t get to pick and choose when the real Olivia Pope walks through that door.” – Scandal

“Cyrus: [to James] I wasn’t made to be the Chief of Staff. Do you know what I was made to be? I was made to be the President of the United States. I was made to lead the nation. I was made to ensure this country’s place in the world for generations to come. I would’ve been great at that. I have the stones. I have backbone. I have the will. I would have been a great President. But guess what, I’m fairly short, and I’m not so pretty, and I really like having sex with men, so instead of being President of this land, that I love, I get to be the guy behind the President of the United States, and sure I have power. I influence decisions. I help steer the country. But I’ll never be in the history books. My name will never be on an airport or a doctrine. Being the guy behind the guy is as far as my road goes.” – Scandal

“Next time I fall in love, I’m wearing knee pads.”

“Strong women only intimidate weak mean.”

“Elena: Why don’t you let people see the good in you?
Damon: Because when people see good they expect good. And I don’t want to have to live up to anybody’s expectations.” – The Vampire Diaries

“Your problem is your inability to resist falling over it. You’re all or nothing, man. You can’t just…be.” – The Vampire Diaries

“As for right now, I’m lost. A map, any map, would be greatly appreciated. I’m not the first lost person to feel this way. Lost people just want a way out; they’ll follow any foolish trail.” – Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

“It seems the more I know something, well, the less I want to know about it.” – how to make an American quilt

“Sometimes it feels like everyone’s moved on, but they all miss you in their own way. Mom, there’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think about you. The good news is I know now I’m not crazy. I was saved by a beast. He didn’t get there in time to save you, but he’s still out there. And I have a feeling that now, we’re going to have to save each other.” – Beauty and the Beast

“The thing is, it’s hard to always stay inside the lines. So we do the best we can. But somewhere along the way, I forgot that if you care about someone, you need to pay attention to their lines, too. Like I said, being a detective is all about drawing lines, but being human I think maybe it’s about knowing how and when to cross them… together.” – Beauty and the Beast

“And the key to pulling of the perfect prank is specificity. I cannot practice proper psychological warfare until I understand the psyche of who I am dealing with.” – Hart of Dixie

“I’ve found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting.’ What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said “love is blind”. Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there’s another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas’, the worst Birthday’s, New Years Eve’s brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I’ve been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can’t swallow! All the usual symptoms.” – the holiday

“I’m looking for a ‘dare to be great’ situation.” – Say Anything

“I’d rather do nothing and be happy than do something I know I don’t love.” – What Happens in Vegas

“Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn’t understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing; too much she would never tell. I could sell these things. People want to buy them. But I’d set all this on fire first. She’d like that. That’s what she would do. She’d make it just to burn it. I couldn’t afford this one, but the beginning deserved something special. But how do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don’t know how to express that being with someone so dangerous, was the last time that I felt safe.” – White Oleander

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when, shouldn’t it be the other way around?” – You’ve Got Mail

“Sometimes it seems like we’re all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It’s good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth: that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they’re actually…beautiful. Possibly even me.” – My So-Called Life

“We try to live responsible, logical lives, but we can’t tell our hearts how to feel. Sometimes our hearts lead us to places we never thought we wanted to go, and sometimes our hearts can be the sweetest, gentlest things we have; sometimes our hearts can make us feel miserable, angry, excited, and confused all at once. But at least my heart is open.” – Roswell

“I am filled with what can only be described as relief. Relief that I got to this place, that this is my life.” – Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

“Love just doesn’t happen to girls like me; girls who build their hopes on an intricate web of day dreams. The truth is that everyone has issues and maybe building up a fake, perfect man in my mind was my biggest issue of all. I’ve been walking around with the ghost of my magic man. He’s been haunting me, keeping me from a world of opportunities that were right in front of me…” – Beauty & the Briefcase

“Maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic. It’s just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” – Eat Pray Love

“i like to take these long walks, mostly at night and look up at all the darkened windows. i just wonder what peoples lives are like and what they’re dreaming about.. i like to see peoples’ faces when they are just falling in love or making up from a fight or even if they are just grieving… there’s something beautiful about a person’s face at that moment. . . ” -bed of roses

“I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales.” – August Rush

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.” – Audrey Hepburn