"The past is another country; they do things differently there" - LP Hartley

Submitted by Mark Grant

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life" - Jack Kerouac

Submitted by Lauren Garforth

"You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over" - William Goldman

Submitted by Jeanne Sutton

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - Paulo Coelho

"Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelis and the Palestinians" - Nick Hornby

Submitted by Sabrina Ghayour ‏

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley; again" - Daphne du Maurier

Submitted by Diane Maughan

"A lot of people lack that gift; knowing when the f*ck off" - Gillian Flynn

Submitted by The Madam-Editor

"Christ died at six. He died at Cocktail hour" - David Hare

Submitted by Camilla Ackley

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" - George Orwell

Submitted by Clare Newsome

"What is an ocean, but a multitude of drops" - David Mitchell

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth" - Charles Dickens

"Reader, I married him." - Charlotte Brontë

Submitted by Polly Wiltshire

"I am haunted by humans" - Markus Zusak

Submitted by Melinda Bor

"She had a dry rose in her hair. She turned to say it once again: 'Naaley.' Tomorrow" - Arundhati Roy

"High on a rocky promontory sat an electric monk on a bored horse" - Douglas Adams

"But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley" - Jane Austen

Submitted by Emily Agg-Manning

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen

Submitted by Sarah McDonald

"A handbag?" - Oscar Wilde

"And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more." - Ann Rinaldi

Submitted by Laura Kate Shippert

"C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante (It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important)" - by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Submitted by Thérèse Bertrand

"I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be." - Christopher Isherwood

Submitted by Leonie Eastwood

"By half past one the last drop of pleasure had evaporated, leaving nothing but headaches. We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drunk. We went on swallowing the wine, but it was only from habit, and the stuff seemed suddenly nauseating. one's head had swollen up like a balloon, the floor rocked, and one's tongue and lips were stained purple...On the whole, the two hours when one was perfectly and wildly happy seemed worth the subsequent headache" - George Orwell

Submitted by Emily Chester

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" - Charles Dickens

"There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity" - Anne Frank

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll

"You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit" - Arthur Miller