Sylvia Townsend Warner - Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

Henri Nouwen - The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…

Marcel Wanders - I like swimming. I like the beach. I like fast cars. I like speedboats.

William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Earl Grollman - Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Malala Yousafzai - Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Charles Dudley Warner - Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Eddie Izzard - I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

John Cooper Clarke - If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

Marilyn Monroe - Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn

William in A Knight’s Tale - I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the f

Daniel Handler - I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Marie Antoinette - I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.