💬 Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"To seduce someone, you must first create a sense of dissatisfaction with their current life."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"Mystery is the soul of seduction; reveal too much and you destroy the desire to know more."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"The greatest obstacle to seduction is your own ego. You must become what the other person needs you to be."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"When you are too available, you lose your value; people only prize what is difficult to attain."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"I’m not a monster. I’m just a man who knows what he wants and refuses to let it go."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"You think you’re being hunted, little mouse, but you’re being worshipped."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Darkness isn’t just the absence of light; it’s a living, breathing entity that waits for you to slip."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Fear is a fickle thing. It can paralyze you, or it can be the fuel that keeps you alive when everything else fails."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"I’ll burn the world down before I let anyone else touch what belongs to me."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Some secrets are buried for a reason, but the truth always finds a way to rot the surface."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"The sun is not a source of light, but a blinding weight that flattens the conscience until only the immediate sensation remains."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"To exist without the anchor of social expectation is to be an alien in one’s own life, a spectator to one's own breathing."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"Justice, in its pursuit of meaning, insists that a man must have a motive, even when the soul offers nothing but indifference."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"Mother died today, or maybe yesterday; the timing is irrelevant to the grief that never arrives."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"The universe is fundamentally mute, and our desperate attempts to impose narrative upon it are merely screams into a vast, indifferent silence."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"Facing the guillotine, Meursault finally accepts the world’s benign indifference, finding at last a kinship with the stars."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"We often mistake love for intensity, for drama, for pain—but love is quiet. Love is security."
— The Silent Patientby Alex Michaelides
"I think most of us are essentially alone. We live and we die as individuals, and we are fundamentally incapable of truly understanding or being understood by anyone else."
— The Silent Patientby Alex Michaelides
"It takes a certain amount of courage to face your own darkness, and most people are too scared to do it."
— The Silent Patientby Alex Michaelides
"I’ve learned that people are like the moon; they have a dark side that they never show to anybody."
— The Silent Patientby Alex Michaelides