The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

And then the big moment, the one every daughter dreads. My mother looking me over.

~Junot Diaz

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. 

~Junot Diaz

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Yes, the wilderness was in me, yes it kept my heart beating fast all day long, yes it danced around me while I walked down the street, yes it let me look boys straight in the face when they stared at me, yes it turned my laugh from a cough into a long wild fever, but I was still scared. How could I not be? I was my mother's daughter. Her hold on me stronger than love.

~Junot Diaz

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

"I didn't run away to come home the same."

~E.L. Konigsburg, as said by Claudia

Peaky Blinders

"All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question."

~Thomas Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy

Candide

"You see," said Candide to Martin, "crime is sometimes punished; that blackguard of a Dutch owner got the fate he deserved."

"Yes," said Martin, "but did the passengers on board have to perish too? God punished the thief, the devil drowned the rest."

~Voltaire

King Lear

LEAR

When we are born, we cry that we are come 

To this great stage of fools. 

~Shakespeare