💬 Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"Monsters are made, not born. And sometimes, they are made out of nothing but broken hearts."
— Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Paperback Gift Setby Laini Taylor
"There is a difference between being forgotten and being erased. One is a tragedy, the other is an act of war."
— Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Paperback Gift Setby Laini Taylor
"We are the sum of our ghosts, the shadows cast by the lives we didn’t lead and the people we couldn’t save."
— Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Paperback Gift Setby Laini Taylor
"I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that."
— Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren
"In this country, people don't talk like that. But of course, in the Congo, everyone lives that way. There, not a single person tells the truth. They lie all day long. They begin at seven in the morning and keep on until sunset."
— Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren
"Things are going to be so much fun that you'll wish you'd been born a thousand years ago."
— Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren
"Oh, what a life! I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world."
— Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren
"But of course, if you’re strong, you have to be especially kind. And you are, Pippi."
— Pippi Longstockingby Astrid Lindgren
"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."
— Matchedby Ally Condie
"To believe in the possibility of choice is the beginning of the end of the Society."
— Matchedby Ally Condie
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
— Matchedby Ally Condie
"They want us to be like the artifacts—kept, preserved, and unchanging. But we are meant to be wild."
— Matchedby Ally Condie
"Everything is different here. And I’m different here."
— Anna and the French Kissby Stephanie Perkins
"People are more complicated than the stories we tell about them."
— Anna and the French Kissby Stephanie Perkins
"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
— The Return of the Kingby J.R.R. Tolkien
"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back?"
— The Return of the Kingby J.R.R. Tolkien