💬 Quotes

"Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business."

"God bless us, every one!"

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

"Courage, dear heart."

"I am in my world as you are in yours. I have another name there. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."

"It is funny how you can never tell whether a man is being funny or serious."

"To know what would have happened, child? No. Nobody is ever told that."

"He didn't exactly turn into a boy; he turned into a dragon, and then he turned back into a boy again."

"What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?"

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, misery, futility and loss."

"It’s what you like, not what you are like, that matters."

"I’m not trying to say that I’m some kind of a genius, but I do know a lot about music and I do know a lot about how people feel about music."

"Most of the time, I don’t want to be with anybody, because I’m bored, and I’m dull, and I’m miserable."

"I’ve been thinking about the top five heartbreaks of my life. Not the top five people I’ve been with, but the top five heartbreaks."

"A great damp loaf of a body. At thirty-six, Quoyle had felt he was an island, a giant, a heavy ship."

"You're a great damp loaf. You should have been a vegetable. A cabbage. A potato. A thing that stays in the ground."

"Is it possible to become the person you want to be, or is your history something you must drag behind you like a ball and chain?"

"The water was black and cold. The horizon was a hard, thin line. It was a place for people who had run out of chances."

"Knots are not just ways of fastening things; they are stories of connection and tension, of holding on and letting go."

"Love is a dangerous thing. It is a gale that strips the shingles from the roof and leaves you shivering in the dark."