๐ฌ Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
โ Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"God is a cluster of neurons. If you want to talk to Him, you're talking to yourself."
โ Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"I am absolutely forbidden to 'work' until I am well again. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good."
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day."
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"I don't want to go out, and I don't want to have anybody come in, till John comes. I want to astonish him."
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"I see her on that long road under the trees, creeping, and when I see that she is trying to climb through the pattern, I am so mad that I should like to get down and help her."
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"
โ Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The forest did not just kill; it remembered. It kept everything, every dropped word and spilled drop of blood, and stitched them into the landscape."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"You think because you are afraid, you are doing something noble. But fear is just a physical reaction. It is the choosing to continue that is the morality."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"History is a heavy thing to carry, especially when itโs trying to eat you."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"There is no such thing as an innocent path in a place that thrives on consumption."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"They told us the monsters were waiting for us to make a mistake. They never mentioned that the monsters were also waiting for us to become them."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"To be forgotten is a mercy the forest will never grant you. You will be a part of the growth, a knot in the wood, an echo in the leaves forever."
โ The Butcher of the Forestby Premee Mohamed
"Everyone has a secret, a layer they peel back only when they think no one is watching."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin
"Trust is a fragile thing, easily shattered by a single misplaced object or a whispered lie."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin
"You can know someone for a lifetime and still not see the darkness hiding behind their smile."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin
"The problem with shared spaces is that you never truly know who you're sharing your life with until it's too late."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin
"In a house of mirrors, the hardest person to find is the one you see in the reflection."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin
"Fear isn't just about what's coming for you; it's about whatโs already sitting at your kitchen table."
โ The Roommateby Kiersten Modglin