Nonobligatory Quotes

#1. Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

Kate Christensen

#2. Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Hugh Jackman

#3. The werehyena Casanova strikes again.

Ilona Andrews

#4. I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#5. He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

Cinda Williams Chima

#6. People were like parasites burrowed into the smog.

Chen Quifan

#7. We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

Yitzhak Rabin

#8. This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Helen Keller

#9. I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Camille Claudel

#10. Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

Ralph Barton Perry

#11. Am I bothered? Am I bothered though. I ain't doing nothing cause I ain't bothered.

Catherine Tate

#12. Dylan looked at me and matter-of-factly said, "My Dad's smart. Boyfriends are way better than girlfriends." I laughed. "Oh really? And why is that?" The kid wrinkled his nose. "Because girls are gross.

L.A. Witt

#13. What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

Dogen

#14. Identify your life mission and gift

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster

Nicola Yoon