💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"You think you want to know the truth, but truth is a heavy burden, and most people are too fragile to carry it."
— Darkfeverby Karen Marie Moning
"In the land of the fae, nothing is ever what it seems. Beauty is a mask for cruelty, and light is merely the absence of shadow."
— Darkfeverby Karen Marie Moning
"I was a girl who liked things clear-cut, black and white, good and evil. Dublin was teaching me that the world was mostly gray, and the gray was where the monsters lived."
— Darkfeverby Karen Marie Moning
"In Laguna, it’s not about how much money you have, it’s about how much money you spend. And we spent it like we were printing it in the garage."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"The thing about being the bad guy is that it’s usually not your choice. It’s a career path you fall into, or a set of circumstances that makes it the only way to survive."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"They say that in a war, the first casualty is truth. But in our war, the first casualty was our innocence."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"Everything in Mexico is about family. Everything is about loyalty. And everything is about the blood you’re willing to spill to protect both."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"You can’t win a war against people who don’t mind dying, because they have nothing to lose, and you have everything."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"We were savages, I suppose. But we were the kind of savages who knew exactly what we were doing, and why we were doing it."
— Savagesby Don Winslow
"O mundo estĂĄ mudando. Os velhos deuses estĂŁo morrendo ou retirando-se para as brumas, e um novo deus, um deus de um sĂł homem, estĂĄ tomando o seu lugar."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"O destino nĂŁo Ă© algo que acontece conosco; Ă© algo que criamos com cada escolha, mesmo aquelas que acreditamos nĂŁo ter feito."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"A verdade tem muitas faces, e o que é sagrado para um homem pode ser apenas superstição para outro."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"NĂŁo existe mal absoluto, nem bem absoluto. O que chamamos de luz e sombra sĂŁo apenas partes do mesmo tecido, tecidas pelas mĂŁos da Deusa."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Às vezes, Ă© necessĂĄrio sacrificar o que mais amamos para preservar aquilo que Ă© maior do que nĂłs mesmos."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Avalon não é um lugar físico que se pode encontrar em um mapa, mas um estado de espírito que se alcança através das brumas da memória e da fé."
— As Brumas de avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Love is a dangerous thing, Rose. It makes you do stupid things. It makes you forget who you are. And worse, it makes you forget who you need to be."
— Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead
"The past is a ghost that never really leaves. It just changes shape and waits for you to turn your back."
— Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead
"You can never be sure that you haven't been the villain in someone else's story, just as you are the protagonist in your own."
— The Blind Assassinby Margaret Atwood
"There’s no such thing as a clean getaway. The past is a tether; it follows you around like a shadow, no matter how fast you run."
— The Blind Assassinby Margaret Atwood
"Everything is a story. You tell it, and then it exists; you stop telling it, and it vanishes like a breath on a cold window."
— The Blind Assassinby Margaret Atwood