💬 Quotes

"It is a somewhat sobering thought that when you walk out of doors, you are walking on a surface that is essentially a thin, cooling crust floating on a roiling, superheated interior."

"The past is a foreign country, but the history of science is a foreign country where nobody speaks the language."

"If you imagine the Earth’s history as a single day, humans don't appear until about four minutes to midnight."

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand."

"Physics is really just a set of rules for how the universe behaves, and most of the time it behaves in ways that are entirely counterintuitive to our everyday experience."

"We live in a universe whose age we can't quite pin down, governed by laws whose nature we don't fully understand, made of particles we can't quite identify."

"You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if only you dared."

"I am not afraid. I have been through hell and back, and I am still standing."

"Names are not just labels. They are the keys to who we are, and who we might become."

"We all bear scars, Aelin. Mine are just in places you can't see."

"The world will break your heart ten times over, but it will also give you reasons to keep fighting."

"Fire-breathing bitch-queen. I’m going to enjoy watching you burn the world down."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!"

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

"It is not what we think or feel or know that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do."

"Living is easy. It's the living that's hard."

"Love, it turns out, is not a feeling. It's a choice."