💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Before you kill him, you must understand that the law is not enough. The law is a reflection of the people, and the people are often wrong."
— Time to Killby John Grisham
"You’re the one who taught me that I don’t need a script to be happy."
— Better Than the Moviesby Lynn Painter
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud."
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"The truth is, you don't create the past. You just sift through it, and if you are lucky, you find something that isn't a lie."
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all there is to make it out of."
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"Make us heirs of the agony of the past and therefore the masters of the future."
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"It was like looking at a photograph of yourself and not knowing who the person in the picture was."
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"If you don't start with nothing, you can't make something, can you?"
— All the King's Menby Robert Penn Warren
"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to sneak through the brambles and find something new."
— The Ocean at the End of the Laneby Neil Gaiman
"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they were when they were adults. Wait. No. Like they were when they were children."
— The Ocean at the End of the Laneby Neil Gaiman
"Monsters do not live under your bed. They live inside your head."
— The Ocean at the End of the Laneby Neil Gaiman
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world in which I lived, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that pleased me."
— The Ocean at the End of the Laneby Neil Gaiman
"The moon was a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas, but here, the ocean was the truth, and the world was just a story that had been told to us."
— The Ocean at the End of the Laneby Neil Gaiman
"Любовь выскочила перед нами, как из-под земли выскакивает убийца в переулке, и поразила нас сразу обоих!"
— Куда она ушлаby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Тот, кто любит, должен разделять участь того, кого он любит."
— Куда она ушлаby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?"
— Grimm's Fairy Talesby Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]