What did scales or skin matter in the dark when your body…

“Oh, wait, it mattered because stupidity didn’t discriminate across blood.”

— K.N. Lee

“You were a mermaid, weren't you? That's what Nadya said." "I still am," said Cora. "I just have my scales under my skin for…

— Seanan McGuire

We'd grown up without any money. I mean, everything was a struggle; our lives were a struggle, and dancing changed all of that. Nothing…

— Arlene Phillips

All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that…

— Steve Young

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

— Tracy Chapman

“Your first kiss isn’t as important as your last. The math test really didn’t matter. The pie really did. The stuff you’re good at…

— Ethan Wate

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either…

— Sarah Dessen

His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some…

— Karen Marie Moning

“I don't. If it mattered to me even one bit, I wouldn't be here with you, Nakano-san!”

— Maki Murakami

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

— George Orwell

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

— Nathan Huggins

“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing…

— Abraham Verghese

“Knowing you don’t have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out—more like, they figure themselves out—and…

— Kami Garcia

“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the…

— Jon Krakauer

“History mattered. But it could not guarantee what might happen next.”

— Michelle Gable