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CUSTOMER: These books are really stupid, aren't they?
BOOKSELLER: Which ones?
CUSTOMER: You know, the ones where animals like cats and mice are best friends.
BOOKSELLER: I suppose they're not very realistic, but then that's fiction.
CUSTOMER: They're more than unrealistic; they're really stupid.
BOOKSELLER: Well, writers use that kind of thing to teach kids about accepting people different to themselves, you know?
CUSTOMER: Yeah, well, books shouldn't pretend that different people get on like that and that everything is 'la de da' and wonderful, should they? Kids should learn that life's a bitch, and the sooner the better. ~ Jen Campbell

There is no equality without coercion. ~ Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora

Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

As his mind continues to drift away from his body, he had one final realization. The world itself was alive, too. It swirled around you and sped past your eyes and ears, so fast you could never see it, but slow at the same time, like a tree growing taller in a park. And all the sounds you hears-the wind whipping past your ears and the ocean's whispering and the tickle of the whitecaps against your boat-that was earth's blood pumping through imperceptible veins, and some of those veins were nothing more than people like Shy or Carmen, or Addie. ~ Matt De La Pena

This is why he never took these jobs anymore, Wes realized. It was too much-he couldn't save everybody-he couldn't even keep his solders alive, let alone in a line. Daran was lost, and while he was a jerk and a lowlife, he had still entrusted his life to Wes and Wes had failed him. He couldn't keep doing this, there were so many ... and he was too young to watch so many kids die. Now he was being asked to save a few more ... for what? So he could watch them starve? ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. ~ Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

A hare is not caught with a drum. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It must be pointed out to the preacher, if he is to cause his people profit and not to embarrass himself with vain joy and presumption, that preaching is a spiritual exercise rather than a vocal one. For, although it is practiced by means of outward words, its power and efficacy reside not in these but in the inward spirit. Wherefore, however lofty be the doctrine that is preached, and however choice the rhetoric and sublime the style wherein it is clothed, it brings as a rule no more benefit than is present in the spirit of the preacher. ~ Juan De La Cruz

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you. ~ Margaret Stohl

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Lucifer, the most beautiful angel of all time,became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light was greater than the Almighty ... ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp! ~ Melissa De La Cruz

One may outwit another, but not all the others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world. ~ Matt De La Pena

Spiritual dating is your ticket to a happy, fulfilling love life. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy. ~ Madame De La Fayette

We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Old fools are greater fools than young ones. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers. ~ Matt De La Pena

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. ~ Jean De La Bruyere