💬 Quotes
4,434 quotes from great books
"People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It’s people who claim that they’re good, or anyacles of God, or agents of righteousness who I think are the dangerous ones."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"Animals have these brainy privileges—speech, literacy, the right to vote, the right to own property—and yet they are treated as second-class citizens by the very species that granted them those rights."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"No one mourns the wicked. May their endings be as unlooked for as their beginnings and their lives as bitter as gall."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"How can you tell the difference between the truth and the lie? The truth is what you believe to be true. The lie is what you believe to be false."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"People deserve the chance to fly, but they have to be willing to give up the ground to do it."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"You aren't a person, you're a creature of circumstance. You are the product of your upbringing, your tragedies, and your choices."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"I’m not a gambler. I’m a businessman. I don’t believe in luck, and I certainly don’t believe in fair play."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"We are all monsters here, some just wear better masks than others."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"I think the thing is to try and make the most of each day. To try and be happy, even if it’s hard. To try and be kind, even if you’re angry. To try and be good, even if you’re tempted to be bad."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"You can live a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is beautiful."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"It’s funny, the way things work out. You spend so much time waiting for something to happen, and then, when it does, it’s not how you imagined it at all."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"The past is just a story we tell ourselves, and most of it is probably fiction."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"In the new world order, information is power. Those who control it control the world."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown
"The memory of a computer is not the same as the memory of a man. A man forgets; a computer records."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown