๐ฌ Quotes
5,028 quotes from great books
"Itโs not about finding someone who completes you. Itโs about finding someone who helps you become the person youโre meant to be."
โ The Love Hypothesisby Ali Hazelwood
"I see the streets of Milton are paved with the sorrows of the poor, while the hearts of the masters are hardened by the weight of their own gold."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"There is a wide difference between the two; and I should like to know if you would think it a kindness to be always told of your faults?"
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I have found that the people of Milton are a hard-headed, sharp-witted folk, but they have hearts as true as the steel they forge."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"You consider all who employ you as your natural enemies. You consider them as a separate class, almost a separate race."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I have lived in a very different world to yours, Mr. Thornton; but I have learned that there is more to life than the mere accumulation of wealth."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"We are none of us perfect; and we have all need to be patient with one another."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I think thatโs the problem with people who are constantly being watched. They eventually forget how to be real. They become a performance of themselves."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"The truth doesn't always set you free. Sometimes, it just chains you to a different kind of life."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"If you want to know what a man is really like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Iโm not a monster. Iโm just a woman who realized that motherhood wasn't the beautiful, selfless journey everyone promised it would be."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Whatever you believe, you're wrong. And whatever I believe, I'm right. That's the beauty of the truth. It's whatever you want it to be."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"You should go, I said. Youโll be so happy. I canโt wait for you to be happy."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"They have a lot of common ground, but they are also completely different people, and that's what makes their relationship so intense."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"Iโm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"He brought her something like a new life, and he had done it by simply standing there and being himself."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience."
โ Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust