"Do you think I've gone round the bend?"

"I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret...all the best people are."

- Lewis Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms...or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

- George R.R. Martin: A Game of Thrones'

"So rose the dreadful ghost from his next and blackest opera. There onstage stood the figure of a dead commander and I knew, only I understood that the horrifying apparition was Leopold raised from the dead. Wolfgang had actually summoned up his own father to accuse his son before all the world. It was terrifying and wonderful to watch. And now the madness began in me, the madness of a man splitting in half...And as I stood there, understanding how that bitter old man was still possessing his poor son even from beyond the grave, I began to see a way, a terrible way I could finally triumph over God."

- Peter Shaffer: 'Amadeus'

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever...lost.”

- J.K. Rowling: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"Every fairytale needs a good old-fashioned villain."

- Jim Moriarty: 'Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall'

“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”

- Stephenie Meyer: 'Twilight Saga; New Moon'

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”

- Stephenie Meyer: 'The Host'

"People should not be afraid of their government; governments should be afraid of their people."

- V: 'V For Vendetta'

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

- André Gide: 'Autumn Leaves'

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Suess

"I wish the ring had never come to me, I wish none of this had happened."

"So do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."

- J.R.R. Tolkien: 'The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

- William Shakespeare: 'Henry V'

"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."

- Stephen E. Ambrose: 'Band of Brothers'

"You should never tell a psychopath they are a psychopath. It upsets them."

- Luke Jennings: 'Killing Eve'

"May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you're dead."

- Grace Burgess: 'The Peaky Blinders'

"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."

- George R.R. Martin