๐ฌ Quotes
8,736 quotes from great books
"A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."
โ Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle
"We do not know what this tiny planet you live on is going to be like in the future. You are much too young to understand the complexity of it."
โ Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle
"The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
โ Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven; yet here we see that even the most resolute spirit must yield when the body itself undergoes a transformation of nature."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"Nature, ever prolific and ever changing, delights in new forms; for nothing that we perceive remains in the same state, but is forever in a state of becoming."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"It is the prerogative of the gods to shape the world at their whim, but it is the burden of humanity to carry the memory of what was lost within the shell of what has become."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"A man may be stripped of his shape, yet the essence of his will persists, lingering like a shadow upon the earth that no change can entirely erase."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"Consider the seasons and the cycle of the tides; just as the moon wanes to wax again, so too does the human condition fluctuate between the monstrous and the divine."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"To be granted immortality without the fixity of form is perhaps the greatest irony of the divine; one is preserved in history, yet lost to oneโs own reflection."
โ Metamorphosenby Banier M. l'abbรฉ
"And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws"
โ Where the wild things areby Maurice Sendak
"Be still! and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once"
โ Where the wild things areby Maurice Sendak
"But the wild things cried, 'Oh please don't goโ we'll eat you up - we love you so!'"
โ Where the wild things areby Maurice Sendak