💬 Quotes
4,116 quotes from great books
"We’re all just a bunch of stories waiting to be told, and most of them are lies."
— Chokeby Chuck Palahniuk
"AT THE END OF THE WORLD, THERE WILL BE ONLY THE SOUND OF THE LAST GRAIN OF SAND FALLING THROUGH THE LAST HOURGLASS."
— Mortby Terry Pratchett
"GIVE A MAN A FIRE AND HE'S WARM FOR A DAY, BUT SET FIRE TO HIM AND HE'S WARM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE."
— Mortby Terry Pratchett
"Memory is the architect of our reality. Change the memory, and you change the person. Change the collective memory, and you change the world."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"The past is never really gone. It’s just waiting to be remembered—or rewritten."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"We are nothing more than the sum of the things we remember, and if you take those away, you take away the soul."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"Time isn't a river. It’s a loop. And we’re just running laps until we finally learn how to stop."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"Love is the only thing that survives the entropy of time. It is the one memory that persists even when the world is folded into nothingness."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"If you could go back and change one moment, you would inevitably destroy the version of yourself that made that life worth living."
— Recursionby Blake Crouch
"They say that memory is a choice. But if you remember, you are haunted. If you forget, you are free."
— On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeousby Ocean Vuong
"To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted."
— On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeousby Ocean Vuong
"I am writing to you from inside a body that was once yours—but before that, it was your mother’s, and her mother’s before that."
— On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeousby Ocean Vuong