Quote by John Green

“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”

— Robertson Davies

“One thing I'll have to face about myself, I suppose, is that while I've always loved mankind in general, I have been less than…

— David Williamson

“You scratch whatever itches you choose," Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet."Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember…

— Patricia Briggs

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

“You’ve got to learn to let people be themselves,”

— Michelle Stimpson

“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what…

— Wilkie Collins

“His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum." "'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said,…

— Patricia Briggs

“I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son,' said the woman called Maryse. 'I have no interest in the world…

— Cassandra Clare

“But I can see what has ensued. A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It…

— John Williams

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky