๐ฌ Quotes
5,292 quotes from great books
"Death is the ultimate escape act, and Houdini spent his whole life trying to figure out how to pick the lock."
โ Houdini Heartby Ki Longfellow
"We are all merely stagehands in the theater of our own madness, rearranging the props while the audience waits for a curtain that never rises."
โ Houdini Heartby Ki Longfellow
"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."
โ The Horse and his Boyby C. S. Lewis
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
โ The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
"I am in my world as you are in yours. I have another name there. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
โ The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
"It is funny how you can never tell whether a man is being funny or serious."
โ The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
"To know what would have happened, child? No. Nobody is ever told that."
โ The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
"He didn't exactly turn into a boy; he turned into a dragon, and then he turned back into a boy again."
โ The Voyage of the Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
"What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?"
โ High Fidelityby Nick Hornby
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, misery, futility and loss."
โ High Fidelityby Nick Hornby
"Iโm not trying to say that Iโm some kind of a genius, but I do know a lot about music and I do know a lot about how people feel about music."
โ High Fidelityby Nick Hornby
"Most of the time, I donโt want to be with anybody, because Iโm bored, and Iโm dull, and Iโm miserable."
โ High Fidelityby Nick Hornby
"Iโve been thinking about the top five heartbreaks of my life. Not the top five people Iโve been with, but the top five heartbreaks."
โ High Fidelityby Nick Hornby
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
โ A Dance with Dragonsby George R. R. Martin
"The North remembers, Lord Davos. The North remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done."
โ A Dance with Dragonsby George R. R. Martin
"Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words."
โ A Dance with Dragonsby George R. R. Martin
"It is not easy to be a king. It is harder to be a good one."
โ A Dance with Dragonsby George R. R. Martin