๐ฌ Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"There is a wide difference between the two; and I should like to know if you would think it a kindness to be always told of your faults?"
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I have found that the people of Milton are a hard-headed, sharp-witted folk, but they have hearts as true as the steel they forge."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"You consider all who employ you as your natural enemies. You consider them as a separate class, almost a separate race."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I have lived in a very different world to yours, Mr. Thornton; but I have learned that there is more to life than the mere accumulation of wealth."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"We are none of us perfect; and we have all need to be patient with one another."
โ North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"I think thatโs the problem with people who are constantly being watched. They eventually forget how to be real. They become a performance of themselves."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"The truth doesn't always set you free. Sometimes, it just chains you to a different kind of life."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"If you want to know what a man is really like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Iโm not a monster. Iโm just a woman who realized that motherhood wasn't the beautiful, selfless journey everyone promised it would be."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"Whatever you believe, you're wrong. And whatever I believe, I'm right. That's the beauty of the truth. It's whatever you want it to be."
โ Verityby Colleen Hoover
"You should go, I said. Youโll be so happy. I canโt wait for you to be happy."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"They have a lot of common ground, but they are also completely different people, and that's what makes their relationship so intense."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"Iโm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"He brought her something like a new life, and he had done it by simply standing there and being himself."
โ Normal Peopleby Sally Rooney
"May God thy gold refine, for thou hast made of me thy countryman."
โ The Westing Gameby Ellen Raskin
"Strategy. Itโs all about strategy. You have to think three moves ahead of everyone else."
โ The Westing Gameby Ellen Raskin