“And we looked into each other and started laughing. I loved that we were lying there naked and laughing for no reason other than the fact that we- and nobody else- were us.” -Megan Mccafferty, Second Helpings

“The ignorant take themselves too seriously. The brilliant know better, and laugh at themselves.” -Megan Mccafferty, Second Helpings

“Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up. It's no ones fault, so there's nothing to feel guilty about. It's just the way things are. I know this is pessimistic, but i just don't see the point in putting any effort in this. Life, as it is, always seems to get in the way.” Megan Mccafferty, Second Helpings

"I've learned you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off."-Megan Mccafferty, Second Helpings

“We are perfect in our imperfection.” -Megan Mccafferty, Second Helpings

“All I’m saying is that you can’t hide from certain death, so you shouldn’t hide from uncertain life.” -Megan Mccafferty, Charmed Thirds

“So that’s why you’re so teary-eyed. Don’t be sad. The people who really matter, you’ll see them again.” Megan Mccafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Someone once said: it’s the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me… I just wanna live a life I’m gonna remember. Even if I don’t write it down.” -One Tree Hill

“There's just something about being from the Carolinas. We've got this assured swagger that's unmistakable, a charm that could only come from being from the coast. Never ask us if were ready to party, chances are we're the ones throwing it. Our life is about the water, country music, football, front porches and taking care of the people around us. Sure we may tend to be a little behind the times in the way we live, but the truth is we just like to keep it simple and take things a little bit slower.”

“When you can't make sense of someone leaving, you sometimes try to make sense of what they left behind. And it makes it a whole lot easier when what they left you was beautiful.“ -Dead Like Me

"Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?" -Communion, Bell Hooks

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone..." -Shawshank Redemption

"I started thinking about why I like country music and doing this show so much, and here is what I came up with, ya'll: I like country music because it's about the things in life that really matter. It ain't about braggin' about how you're gonna mess somebody up or how somebody ain't respecting you-- it's about love, family, friends, a few beers, a cheap woman and a two-timing man, thrown in for spice. It doesn't take political sides, even on things as ugly as war. Instead, it celebrates the brave men and women who go to fight them, the price they pay to do it and the longing we have for them to return home to the ones that they love. It's about kids and how there ain't nothing like them. I get tired of hearing about how bad kids are today, because there are a lot of great kids out there that just need someone to love them and believe in them. Country folks love their kids and they will jack you up if you try to mess with them. People in country music don't forget the people that allow them to do what they do for a living. They sign autographs and take pictures with the fans because they know without them, most of us entertainers would get a lot dirtier in the course of our work day. We are thankful that people want to hear the songs and the jokes that we write. Country music doesn't have to be politically correct. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We're not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion on whether or not He exists. We love country music because it touches us where we live. It's about mamas and when they were hot and when they are unappreciated and when they were dying. It's about daddies and the difficulties they have sometimes in telling the people that they work so hard to protect and provide for how they feel about them. Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about getting drunk and it's about getting sober. It's about leaving and it's about coming home. It's real music sung by real people, for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want, we're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church and we get up and go to war when neccessary. All we ask for is a few songs to carry us along the way, and that's why I love this show, because it ain't some self-important, Hollywood-hype with the winners determined by somebody else. On this show, you decide who goes home with a trophy and you get to dance and sing along with the people that bring you the songs of your life." -Jeff Foxworthy, CMT Awards

“You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin' right now. You're only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years. Rocky Marciano. Sugar Ray Robinson. Joe Louis. Sometimes you get 'em all at once. Me? I had my three when I was 16. That happens. What are you gonna do? That's the way it goes, you know? Tell you right now. See this girl? Maybe this girl, she put wind in your sails. Maybe she's your first great one.“ -A Bronx Tale

"Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can’t have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don’t know what they want." - Grey's Anatomy

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form. That’s all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” -The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather then our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God's hand in this? Is it really so much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card from a deck of billions? Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater then us?" -Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

"The thing about good music is this: if you were to take out all the lyrics in a song, you'll still know what the song’s about..." -Jimi Hendrix

“All the really exciting things in life require more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap. See, the kind of fear you’re talking about, sometimes it’s how you know what’s worthwhile.” -Dawson's Creek

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” -Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.” -Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.” - Nicholas Sparks, 'The Notebook'

“Sometimes we don't do things that we want to do, so that others don't know we want to do them.” -The Village

“It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.” -C.S. Lewis

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” -J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"Whether you think you can’t, or whether you think you can, you're right." -Henry Ford

"Start by doing the hardest thing, forgive yourself." -Spiderman 3

"You want forgiveness, get religion." Spiderman 3