💬 Quotes

5,292 quotes from great books

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, they say, but the search for home is different. Perhaps home is not a place, but a condition of being lost."
The Haunting (tie-in)by Shirley Jackson
"It is a house that is not sane. It stands against its hills, holding darkness within; it has stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more."
The Haunting (tie-in)by Shirley Jackson
"Why am I here? Why am I really here? I am here because I have never been anywhere else, and now I am finally part of the walls."
The Haunting (tie-in)by Shirley Jackson
"In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their terrible luck."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"I am not a girl who needs to be saved."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve. Either you are his true love, or you killed him."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"Gansey had always been driven by the idea that he was meant for something greater, something that required him to be perfect."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"It was a wild, messy, beautiful thing, the way they had all come together."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"You look at the trees and you see wood. I look at the trees and I see something that’s been watching us for a thousand years."
The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater
"Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis."
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt."
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, die eine will sich von der andern trennen."
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Das also war des Pudels Kern!"
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön!"
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen."
Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."
Emmaby Jane Austen
"It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do."
Emmaby Jane Austen
"I have been in love with you ever since I met you."
Emmaby Jane Austen
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Emmaby Jane Austen
"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
Emmaby Jane Austen