💬 Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple; it is a tangled web of lies, secrets, and half-truths."
— The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg Larsson
"Blomkvist realized that evil is often just a very ordinary man who has been given the opportunity to act on his darkest impulses."
— The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg Larsson
"Sometimes you have to break the rules to do what is right, especially when the system is designed to protect the predators."
— The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg Larsson
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
— The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood
"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
— The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood
"I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance."
— The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some."
— The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."
— The Giverby Lois Lowry
"If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!"
— The Giverby Lois Lowry
"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past."
— The Giverby Lois Lowry
"They have never known pain, they have never known color, they have never known love. They are protected from all of it."
— The Giverby Lois Lowry
"Szczęście można znaleźć nawet w najmroczniejszych czasach, jeśli tylko pamięta się, by zapalić światło."
— Harry Potter i więzień Azkabanuby J. K. Rowling
"Jeśli chcesz wiedzieć, jaki ktoś jest, przyjrzyj się dobrze, jak traktuje swoich podwładnych, a nie równych sobie."
— Harry Potter i więzień Azkabanuby J. K. Rowling
"Dementorzy to jedne z najwstrętniejszych istot na ziemi. Żerują na wszystkim, co w ludziach najlepsze: na radości, nadziei, pokoju."
— Harry Potter i więzień Azkabanuby J. K. Rowling
"Wszyscy, których kochamy, nigdy tak naprawdę nas nie opuszczają. Możemy odnaleźć ich w sobie."
— Harry Potter i więzień Azkabanuby J. K. Rowling