💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"Every secret has a cost. The question is, how much are you willing to pay to keep it?"
The Hawthorne Legacyby Jennifer Lynn Barnes
"I’m not a piece in your game, and I’m not a pawn in theirs. I’m the one who decides how this ends."
The Hawthorne Legacyby Jennifer Lynn Barnes
"What is it that endures? It’s not the individual. It’s something else. It’s the Cause. It’s the country."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"Some men are born to lead, and some are born to follow. And some are born to stand in the middle and get shot at."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"I will not fight in this war. I will not kill. But I will fight for the freedom of a man I do not know."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"The truth is, he had never really believed in the war. He had believed in the army, and he had believed in Lee, but the war itself was a long, dark tunnel."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"To be a soldier is to know that you are a part of something larger than yourself, a part of a design."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"It is the great irony of the war: that the men who have the most to lose are the ones who are most willing to die."
The Killer Angelsby Michael Shaara
"El dinero puede comprar muchas cosas, pero no puede comprar la paz mental ni borrar el pasado."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"El amor es una cosa terrible. A veces hace que la gente haga cosas que nunca se imaginó capaz de hacer."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"Lo que es importante no es lo que uno ve, sino lo que uno observa."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"La gente es muy fácil de engañar cuando cree que sabe exactamente lo que está sucediendo."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"El mal, cuando se deja crecer, no conoce límites; se alimenta de sí mismo."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"Es curioso cómo una pequeña pieza de información puede cambiar toda la perspectiva de un crimen."
Muerte en el Niloby Agatha Christie
"When the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we did, but how we did it."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon
"A house is a cage, but a home is a place where you can be yourself, even when the world outside is falling to pieces."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon
"You can’t change the past, but you can certainly ruin the future by worrying about it."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon
"Love is not a state of grace, it is a state of war—a struggle to keep the other person whole, even when the world is trying to tear them apart."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon
"History is just the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the carnage."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon
"The past is a ghost that refuses to be buried, and it will haunt you until you make peace with the blood on your hands."
A breath of snow and ashesby Diana Gabaldon