15. Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro

" I am already set apart - a little too set apart in fact. What i was trying to do was to fit in."
 
"Fitting in is for school girls. Being differeing is not a crime, my dear, but an asset."

14. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Berneires

"And another thing. Love is temporary madness, it erupts like volcanos and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have soentwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desider to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunte accident. Your other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. But sometimes the petals fall away and the roots have not entwined. Imagine giving up your home and your people, only to discover after six months, a year, three years, that the trees have had no rotts and have fallen over. Imagine the desolation. Imagine the imprisonment."

13. Losing My Virginity, Richard Branson's autobiography

"What's money for anyway? Its to make things happen"

"I am prepared to try anything once!"

12. Tuesday with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in"

11. Mister God, This is Anna , by Fynn

"But with them, difficulties and adversities were merely occasions for doing something. Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad"

"You see Fynn, Mister God is differnt from us because he can fnish things and we cant. I cant finish loving you because i shall be dead million years before i can finish, but mister God can finish loving you, and so its not the same kind of love, is it? "

"Humanity in general had an infinite number of points of view whereas Mister God had an infinite number of viewing points. That means that - God is everywhere.

10. The Missing Pages, by Christina Comencini

"Most people were a prey to confused ideas and irrationallity. But if one's desire was to understand, it was essential not to be involved."

"...by saying nothing, i kept my pride."

9. Veronika Decides to Die, by Paulo Coelho

"Two hardest test on spiritual world; the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter."

8. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, by Paulo Coelho

"There are suffering... defeats. But its better to lose some of the battles in the struggle of your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for"

7. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

"What's the world greatest lie? Its this: that at certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate."

6. Earthbound, by William Corbett

5. The Rice Mother, by Rani Manicka

"The truth was, he didnt know how to live without her. He had learned to live with the abuse and the hate, but he didnt know how to cope wihtout her."

4. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

"High calls low and lowcalls high. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, i should turn to God"

3. White Oleander, by Janet Fitch

"Love is tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you. Changes its mind. But hatred sculpt, wield. It's hard and soft, however you need it. Love humilates you, but hatred craddles you."

"When women put men first, that's how everything got so screwed up."

2. A Virtuous Woman by Kay Gibbons

"And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding"

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

"He was not unkind in the ways that the television and newspaper were full of. His cruelty was in his absence. Even when he came and sat at her dinner table, and ate her food, he was not there"