💬 Quotes
4,458 quotes from great books
"É uma tolice esperar que os filhos compreendam as lutas dos pais; eles só conhecem o fruto, nunca a terra onde a árvore foi plantada."
— Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"A riqueza é como uma névoa matinal; ela brilha intensamente sob o sol, mas dissolve-se sem deixar rastro se não estiver ancorada em algo sólido."
— Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"O ciclo da vida é um eterno retorno: o homem nasce, trabalha o solo, colhe o que planta e, enfim, retorna ao pó que ele mesmo cultivou."
— Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"She was sitting at the lunch table, but she was elsewhere. She was in a different world, a different time, a different dimension. She was a different species."
— Stargirlby Jerry Spinelli
"We didn't live for ourselves. We lived for one another. We were a community. And she was the best of us."
— Stargirlby Jerry Spinelli
"I want to be remembered for the things I wrote, and the love I gave, and the things I didn't say."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Once, I was loved for my wit and my looks. Now, I am loved for my invisibility."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Everything is possible, he said. And he was right. Everything that has happened in the world has happened because someone imagined it first."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"The problem with being noticed is that it's just the first step toward being forgotten."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"I was looking for a way to say everything. To say that I was still here, and that I was still the person who had loved her, even if she didn't know it."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"A person is a collection of all the people they’ve ever known, and all the people they’ve ever loved, and all the things they’ve ever lost."
— The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Every woman has a list. A mental catalog of the ways she changes her behavior to survive the world."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"It’s the tragedy of being a woman—you’re taught to be polite, even when your gut is screaming at you to run."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"Andrea wasn’t just a person; she was a warning. A ghost story that hadn’t finished being told yet."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"The darkness didn't come from the woods. It came from the people who walked through them looking for someone to break."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"If you wait for a sign that something is wrong, you’ve already waited too long."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"We are told we’re the weaker sex, but the amount of terror we endure just to exist proves otherwise."
— Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"To love is to be vulnerable, to open the door to a room that can be devastated, but it is the only way to truly live."
— Watchersby Dean Koontz
"He knew that the moment he held that object in his hand he was choosing his life."
— Native Sonby Richard Wright
"What I killed for must've been good! It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something."
— Native Sonby Richard Wright