💬 Quotes

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"The library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."
— Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
— Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
"He thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars."
— Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
"At that time I used to say: I am dreaming that I am dreaming. I am dreaming that I am dreaming that I am dreaming."
— Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
— Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges
"I’m not a good man. I’m not a man you want to get to know, and I’m definitely not a man you want to fall in love with."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"You are a ghost, Sarai. You’ve been dead for years, just waiting for someone to bury you."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"The darkness wasn’t something I ran from anymore; I was starting to realize that I was a part of it."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"Every time I think I have you figured out, you surprise me. And every time you surprise me, I want you more."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"Fear is a powerful motivator, but it doesn't compare to the desire to be free."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"I’ve spent my life ending things. Maybe it’s time I learn how to start something."
— Killing Saraiby J. A. Redmerski
"I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"In the spy world, the most dangerous weapon isn't a gun or a microchip. It's the truth."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"Being a Gallagher Girl means you're never truly off the clock. Your life is your mission."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"We were trained to lie, to cheat, to steal, and to kill. But no one ever taught us how to talk to a boy at the mall."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"A chameleon doesn't choose to change colors; it does so to survive. That is what we are taught to be."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"The hardest part of living a double life isn't the lying; it’s remembering which truth you told to whom."
— I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill Youby Ally Carter
"Solitude is a human enterprise, carefully crafted, but nature is populated with presences. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
— Prodigal Summerby Barbara Kingsolver
"Nature is a forest of predators and prey, but it is also a tangle of relationships, a delicate web of interdependence where nothing exists in isolation."
— Prodigal Summerby Barbara Kingsolver
"The earth is not a machine, but a garden, and we are not its masters, but its stewards—or perhaps just its messy, tangled children."
— Prodigal Summerby Barbara Kingsolver