๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

4,458 quotes from great books

"They don't let you feel what you want to feel. They offer you food and clothes and money, but they won't let you feel that you are a man."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The white folks didn't have to dream; they had the world in which they lived and it was made for them."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"I didn't want to kill! But what I killed for, I am! It must've meant I was alive!"
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The city was a vast, cold, white, and frozen landscape, and he was a stranger in it."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The world is full of things we don't understand, but that doesn't mean they aren't real."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Itโ€™s not about how strong you are. Itโ€™s about how much youโ€™re willing to lose to protect the people you love."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Being different isnโ€™t a flaw. Itโ€™s a superpower, even if itโ€™s a terrifying one."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"We are all broken, in one way or another. The trick is to find someone whose broken pieces fit with yours."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Trust is a fragile thing. It takes a lifetime to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Sometimes the greatest courage is just showing up and being brave enough to keep going, even when you're terrified."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Nature is to be found in the place where it is allowed to exist, and it is almost nowhere."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"Everything is educational, if you look at it right."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"The problem with people is that they're only human."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"Art is a way of looking at the world, but it's also a way of creating it. And if you create it, you can control it."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"God is a cluster of neurons. If you want to talk to Him, you're talking to yourself."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"The forest did not just kill; it remembered. It kept everything, every dropped word and spilled drop of blood, and stitched them into the landscape."
โ€” The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"You think because you are afraid, you are doing something noble. But fear is just a physical reaction. It is the choosing to continue that is the morality."
โ€” The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"History is a heavy thing to carry, especially when itโ€™s trying to eat you."
โ€” The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"There is no such thing as an innocent path in a place that thrives on consumption."
โ€” The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed