💬 Quotes

5,148 quotes from great books

"Everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be, except for the things that aren't."
Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson
"You can’t know anything for sure. You can only know what you can prove."
Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson
"People are like the weather; you can try to predict them, but in the end, they just happen."
Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"I saw that you were afraid, but I do not blame you. I am never angry with my children for being afraid."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"All the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"There was a real railway accident... Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands—dead."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"Everything in Narnia, and the whole world, is only the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
The Last Battleby C. S. Lewis
"If you want to know what a man is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris
"The teacher, a squat woman with a face that looked like it had been dropped into a box of nails, looked at me and said, 'Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section.'"
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris
"I’ve always thought that if you’re going to be a person, you should really try to be one."
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris
"You can’t control how people interpret your intentions, but you can control what you put out into the world."
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris
"To me, language is not just a means of communication, but a series of traps we lay for one another."
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris
"Love is not a request for permission. It is a demand for existence."
J. R. Wardby J.R. Ward
"Destiny is a funny thing; it doesn’t ask if you’re ready for the burden, it just places it on your shoulders and expects you to carry the weight."
J. R. Wardby J.R. Ward
"The darkness inside is not an enemy to be defeated, but a shadow to be walked with."
J. R. Wardby J.R. Ward
"You think you are protecting her by keeping her away, but you are only starving both of your souls."
J. R. Wardby J.R. Ward
"There is no nobility in suffering alone when you have been offered a hand to hold."
J. R. Wardby J.R. Ward