💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Everything that happens to you is yours and will be yours forever. The trick is to own it, to make it a part of your story instead of letting it be the thing that keeps you from starting the next chapter."
— Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells
"Accidents are events that occur without cause; they are occurrences that do not belong to the chain of events that makes up the universe."
— Snow Falling on Cedarsby David Guterson
"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
"In the town, in her brain, was a secret pearl; and in the secret pearl was the future of their family."
— Pearlby John Steinbeck
"It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away."
— Pearlby John Steinbeck