๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

4,434 quotes from great books

"Iโ€™d rather die fighting than live a life where I was just a shadow of the person I was supposed to be."
โ€” Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead
"I was a boy with no name. I was 'It'. Just an object. A toy to be kicked and played with."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"I had to learn to shut my mind off, to retreat into a world where she couldn't hurt me."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"I am a living testament that no matter what your background is, or what you have been through, you can succeed."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"I knew that if I could just hold on, if I could just survive this day, there would be a tomorrow."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"Mother had become a stranger, a monster who had forgotten how to love me."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"The more she hurt me, the more I decided I was going to survive. I wouldn't let her kill my spirit."
โ€” A child called "it"by David J. Pelzer
"Sometimes, the heart wants what the heart wants, and sometimes, the heart is a traitor."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"I want to be more than a trophy to be won. I want to be the one who decides my own fate."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"It is not the monsters we should fear, but the people who make them."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"Even the most beautiful roses have thorns, and those thorns are there to protect what matters most."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"I was never meant to be a queen. I was meant to be happy."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"Off with their heads! It is such a simple, clean solution to a world that is anything but."
โ€” Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"People die because they lose the will to live. Or perhaps they just lose the will to be anything else."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Iโ€™m not a messiah. Iโ€™m just a taxi driver who happens to have a few messages."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"You don't have to be anything more than your ordinary self to do something extraordinary."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Itโ€™s not the big things that hurt the most. Itโ€™s the suckers in the middle. The ones you never see coming."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"I am the messenger. And I am the message."
โ€” I Am the Messengerby Markus Zusak
"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to be the life of a human being."
โ€” No Longer Humanby Osamu Dazai