๐ฌ Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"Some scars are on the outside, and some are on the inside. His were the kind that defined the landscape of his soul."
โ Bared to Youby Sylvia Day
"Angels are not what we thought. They are not beautiful, benevolent beings. They are warriors. They are monsters."
โ Angelfallby Susan Ee
"If you want to survive, you have to be able to do things that make you hate yourself."
โ Angelfallby Susan Ee
"He looks at me with eyes that have seen the birth and death of stars, yet there's a flicker of something human in them."
โ Angelfallby Susan Ee
"People are like glass. Sometimes they shatter into a thousand pieces, and sometimes they just crack. But they are never the same again."
โ Angelfallby Susan Ee
"Happiness. It's quite, well, sugary, isn't it? It's a tiny thing, really. A spoonful of sugar. A moment of peace. A touch of chocolate."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"I think of the world as a place where we are all travelers, and we are all strangers, and we are all searching for a place to call home."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"People are like recipes; they have their own peculiar ingredients, their own distinct flavor, their own hidden depths."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"They say that in chocolate you can find the very essence of life: its bitterness, its sweetness, and the way it lingers long after it is gone."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"Iโm not a witch, Roux. Iโm just a woman who knows what people want, even if they don't know it themselves."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"Life is what you bake of it. Itโs not about the ingredients, but the spirit you put into the mixing."
โ Chocolatby Joanne Harris
"To understand is to forgive, even if it is to forgive yourself."
โ Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"I am a speaker for the dead. I have no interest in the living, except as they remember the dead."
โ Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"Nobody is what they seem. Not you, not me, not anyone. We are all lying, all the time. The only way we can tell the truth is by admitting we're liars."
โ Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"If you don't know why a man did something, you don't know what he did."
โ Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"The truth isn't a thing you can just blurt out. It's a thing that has to be earned."
โ Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card