💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"I don't think you can ever truly move on from someone you loved with all your heart, even if they are gone."
— Message in a bottleby Nicholas Sparks
"We are all of us alone in the world, and we are all of us looking for someone to share the burden of that loneliness."
— Message in a bottleby Nicholas Sparks
"The past is a place we can visit, but it is not a place where we can live."
— Message in a bottleby Nicholas Sparks
"Love is the only thing that can touch the soul and make it whole again."
— Message in a bottleby Nicholas Sparks
"Some love stories don't have happy endings, but that doesn't mean they weren't worth the journey."
— Message in a bottleby Nicholas Sparks
"It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything else, and it’s not a conversation you can have with just anybody."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"If you don't step out of your comfort zone, you're not going to grow. You have to be uncomfortable to change."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"I felt like I was in a place where I could actually get better, because for the first time, I wasn't trying to be someone I wasn't."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"There’s a lot of things to be afraid of in the world. If you live your life being afraid of all of them, you’re not really living."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"You have to live your own life. You have to make your own choices. You have to take your own risks."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"The problem with being smart was that you could think of everything that could go wrong, and then you’d be paralyzed by it."
— It's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
"The thing is, you have to be able to make a mistake. You have to be allowed to mess up, or you're not really living."
— The correctionsby Jonathan Franzen
"The main thing was to keep moving, to keep the machinery of one's own existence running despite the encroaching obsolescence."
— The correctionsby Jonathan Franzen
"He felt that the only way to be happy was to be delusional, and he wasn't sure he had the talent for it."
— The correctionsby Jonathan Franzen
"The culture is a machine that devours its own past, and it is our job to be the digestive juices."
— The correctionsby Jonathan Franzen
"You can’t just stop caring about someone because they’ve changed. You have to decide if the person they are now is someone you can still love."
— Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead
"Death is not the end. It’s just a different kind of beginning. But for us, it’s a beginning that involves a lot more blood and a lot less sunshine."
— Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead
"There are some choices you make that you can never come back from. Some lines you cross where the other side is a place you don't recognize."
— Spirit Boundby Richelle Mead