💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"He had seen the truth of the world, and it was not a truth that allowed for the comfort of ignorance ever again."
— Neverwhereby Neil Gaiman
"Det är en sak att bli behandlad som en idiot, en helt annan sak att bli behandlad som en som inte existerar."
— Luftslottet som sprengtesby Stieg Larsson
"Sanningen är inte en sak som existerar i ett vakuum. Sanningen är vad man kan bevisa."
— Luftslottet som sprengtesby Stieg Larsson
"Man kan inte ändra på det förflutna, men man kan göra upp med det så att det slutar påverka framtiden."
— Luftslottet som sprengtesby Stieg Larsson
"Systemet var en orm som åt sin egen stjärt, en självförsörjande apparat av korruption och tystnad."
— Luftslottet som sprengtesby Stieg Larsson
"Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"The world is always ending, and the world is always beginning. It just depends on which side of the prophecy you’re standing on."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"It’s funny how humans can wrap their tiny minds around so many terrible things in order to put off accepting the truth."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"I’m not a hero. I’m a weapon. And weapons don't get to choose where they are aimed."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"True courage is about being afraid, and then doing it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"Even the strongest heart has to break sometimes, but that’s how you let the light back in."
— The Heroes of Olympusby Rick Riordan
"Love is the worst kind of sickness. It makes you lose your grip on reality."
— Pandemoniumby Lauren Oliver
"Of all the evils upon this earth, the worst is money. It tramples down cities, it corrupts honest men and seduces them away from their noble foundations."
— Antigoneby Sophocles
"For me, it was not Zeus who made that proclamation. Nor did Justice, who lives with the gods below, establish such laws for mankind."
— Antigoneby Sophocles
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the gods must be inviolate. Great words of pride are always punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened wisdom."
— Antigoneby Sophocles
"A mountain is a mountain, but it is also a wall, a barrier, a home, a prison, and a god."
— Princess Academyby Shannon Hale