💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly."
— The bluest eyeby Toni Morrison
"There is a kind of humor which is born in the dark and which is not in the least funny."
— The bluest eyeby Toni Morrison
"The master bedroom was the only room in the house that had any light, and even that was dim, filtered through the thick, yellowing lace curtains."
— The bluest eyeby Toni Morrison
"Most folk in Lorain, Ohio, believed that everything that happened was God's will, and they spent a good deal of their time trying to figure out what that will was."
— The bluest eyeby Toni Morrison
"The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is healthy and pure. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
— 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne
"Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed, even when you're terrified."
— The Blood of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"I’m not a hero because I’m strong or because I have powers. I’m a hero because I chose to fight for the people I love."
— The Blood of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"Maybe that’s the greatest challenge of all—accepting that we can’t fix everything, but we can fix what’s right in front of us."
— The Blood of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"You are a soul of the stars, and you have been burned by the earth, but you are not broken."
— House of Earth and Bloodby Sarah J. Maas
"The world is not just black and white, Bryce. There is a lot of gray, and that is where the most dangerous people live."
— House of Earth and Bloodby Sarah J. Maas
"I am not a victim. I am a survivor, and that is all that matters."
— House of Earth and Bloodby Sarah J. Maas
"To translate is to lose. The more you pour into a vessel, the more you leave behind in the source."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"They want you to be a tool, not a thinker. They want your labor, not your loyalty."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang