💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"But a peculiar isn't just a collection of powers; it’s a way of looking at the world."
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"Everything is going to be alright, but not in the way you expect."
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"The past is a ghost; it is not meant to be lived in, only remembered."
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"I’m not… I mean, I’m not even sure if I’m straight."
Heartstopper: Volume 1by Alice Oseman
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears."
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open."
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. ... Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil."
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"A man who wants nothing but the truth is a man who is rarely loved."
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"Whatever you do, it will be only a drop in the ocean. But what is the ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t."
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine."
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more."
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
Macbethby William Shakespeare
"Everything was still, and the big woods were dark and quiet and full of secrets."
Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The little log house was almost hidden among the trees, but it was a warm, bright, happy place to be."
Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Laura lay awake, looking at the firelight dancing on the walls and listening to the wind in the great trees."
Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Work was a cheerful thing, for it meant that the winter would be well-provided for."
Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder