💬 Quotes

"By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are."

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city."

"The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself."

"I am a brother to them all, and I have no other brother."

"It is the fate of many people to be who they are, and to do what they do, while they have no idea of the power they exert."

"Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means."

"I have the heart to be happy, and I have the heart to be miserable; I am not a machine, but a woman."

"I’m not looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."

"The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak."

"Like calls to like. You were never meant to be ordinary, Alina."

"I am not afraid of you. I am afraid of what you have become."

"I think I would have remembered if I had killed a man."

"Whatever you build, whatever you create, it’s all just sand in the wind if you don’t have the strength to protect it."

"The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the fourth."

"I’m not just a pretty face, you know. I’m a person, too."

"There is no point in searching for something that isn't lost."

"History is not written by the victors, but by the survivors, and I am the only one who has managed to survive the slaughter."

"Everything is illuminated in the light of the past."

"I am not merely a collector of things, but a collector of memories."

"We are haunted by the things we don't know, and we are haunted by the things we do."