A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world – Oscar Wilde 

I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure. A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined  - Chuck Palahniuk 

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong  - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars - Frank Sinatra

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world - C.S. Lewis

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life – well, valuable, but small – and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven’t been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn’t it be the other way around? I don’t really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void – Kathleen Kelly from You’ve got mail

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I’d been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time. - Jhumpa Lahiri, ‘Unaccustomed Earth’

The only thing worth globalising is dissent – Arundhati Roy 

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it. – Kurt Vonnegut

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking –  ’Anna Karenina ‘ by Leo Tolstoy

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women … merely adored – Oscar Wilde

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted — I’d have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We’re all so tied together. We’re all in a net, the net is waiting, and we’re pushed into it by one single desire - Ayn Rand’s ‘The fountainhead’

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde 

All right, I took the quiz, and it turns out, I do put career before men – Chandler Bing