The longer I do my job, the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Q’s Dad, Paper Towns
Project 366 - Day 142
I spy with my little eye a great story.
The town was paper but the memories were not. {

Project 366 - Day 142

I spy with my little eye a great story.

The town was paper but the memories were not.

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Now, come on. You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.

Simon Wyler, The Lake House
Project 366 - Day 140
You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle. {

Project 366 - Day 140

You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

There are a thousand things going over my head right now. And I have to think about the kiss too? Are you kidding me? Oh my God my brain is gonna explode!

Tripp Kennedy (Patrick Dempsey), Flypaper

The most worthwhile things in life are often the most difficult. For example *Beckett calls*. Wow that really is a smartphone.

Richard Castle

‘NOTHING’ is a strong word.

Richard Castle

We can’t have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.

Enzo, The Art Of Racing In The Rain

The fact that there are bad times makes it more real. It’s the reality that I want.

Henry DeTamble, The Time Traveler’s Wife

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Quentin, Paper Towns