💬 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
"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
"Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, die eine will sich von der andern trennen."
— Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön!"
— Fushideby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
— Emmaby Jane Austen