💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook; it’s about cutting the wire so you can finally stop bleeding."
— The Edge of Neverby Sarah Bailey
"Silence is the loudest thing in a room full of secrets."
— The Edge of Neverby Sarah Bailey
"You don't find yourself by looking back; you find yourself by deciding which version of you is worth the future."
— The Edge of Neverby Sarah Bailey
"Sometimes, the heart wants what the heart wants, and sometimes, the heart is a traitor."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"I want to be more than a trophy to be won. I want to be the one who decides my own fate."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"It is not the monsters we should fear, but the people who make them."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"Even the most beautiful roses have thorns, and those thorns are there to protect what matters most."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"I was never meant to be a queen. I was meant to be happy."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"Off with their heads! It is such a simple, clean solution to a world that is anything but."
— Heartlessby Marissa Meyer
"The past is a bucket of ashes, or a heap of dead leaves, or an empty room. But it is also a living thing, a shadow that walks beside us."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"You don't just pick up and move. You carry your life with you, like a snail carrying its shell, and you never really arrive anywhere because you are always arriving."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"I suppose that is what marriage is—a long, slow conversation that never really finishes, even when you aren't talking."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"The angle of repose is the steepest angle at which a sloping surface formed of loose material is stable. I have been trying to find the angle of repose for my own life."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"We are all the children of our own geography, and we can no more escape it than we can escape the blood in our veins."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"History is a dream we keep having, and the people we love are the ones who wake us up, or else we go on sleeping forever."
— Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
"La fuerza de la Manada es el Lobo, y la fuerza del Lobo es la Manada."
— Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling
"Ahora esta es la Ley de la Selva, tan antigua y tan verdadera como el cielo; y el Lobo que la guarda puede prosperar, pero el Lobo que la rompe debe morir."
— Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling
"Si no eres capaz de luchar, deberás ser capaz de aprender; y si no puedes aprender, deberás ser capaz de servir."
— Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling
"El hombre es el único animal al que no se puede confiar, porque es el único que mata por placer o por orgullo."
— Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling
"La selva no tiene piedad con los que se quedan atrás, pero es una madre generosa para los que saben escuchar sus secretos."
— Libro de la Selvaby Rudyard Kipling