💬 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
"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