💬 Quotes

"I often think how people make mistakes in saying that a man has this or that quality—kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, indifferent, and so on. People are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all, but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, there clear, there cold, there dull, there clear."

"He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal mistake men make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires."

"If there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"I’ve always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be."

"Everything, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

"Everything about him—the way he walked, the way he stood, the way he looked at her—was heavy with a history she didn't know but felt she should."

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!"

"He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy."

"You have to be crotchety and tough and not give a damn about anything, because that’s the only way you can keep from getting hurt."

"The flock gets sight of a Rainbird—don’t know how—but they all turn yellow and fly away. That’s the way we’re living here."

"He’s what he is, that’s all. He isn’t trying to be something he isn’t. A guy like that, he’s got to win."

"She’s not losing her grip, she’s just changing her tactics. She’s too smart to just come out and kill someone."

"They don’t bother asking me; they just go on talking like I wasn’t there, like I was a part of the wall or something."

"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play."

"It’s funny how in this world, even when you’re trying to be nice, you can still end up being the bad guy."

"Everything touches everything else. You are part of a whole. A life is not lived in a vacuum."

"A lot of you cared, just not enough. But who’s to say what’s enough?"

"People say they want the truth, but they don’t. They want the version of the truth that makes them feel better."

"You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not just messing with that one part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life."

"Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, the deadly rage that brought countless woes upon the Achaeans."