💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"You can’t run from yourself. You can only learn to live with who you’ve become."
— Pandemoniumby Lauren Oliver
"You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."
"Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live."
"I will never, ever be the person who can just sit and watch the world go by. I want to be in the thick of it."
"You’re marked now, Clark. You’ve seen what’s out there. You can’t go back to the way you were before."
"It is not a life to be like a piece of furniture in a room, waiting for someone to move you from one place to another."
"I can’t keep him, can I? I can’t change who he is, or what he wants to do. I have to let him go."
"There were only two kinds of people in Gatlin. The ones who stayed, and the ones who dreamed of leaving."
"You are a Gatlin boy. You don't get to choose who you are, or who you love. The town chooses for you."
"Before the song, there was only the silence. And the silence was heavy, like a secret you've been keeping for a lifetime."
"Falling in love is not the same thing as being in love. Falling is a surrender, a lapse in judgment. Being in love is a choice you make every day."
"The past is never really behind us. It’s always right there, walking beside us, waiting for us to trip over it."
"It’s not what we choose that defines us, Ethan. It’s what we’re willing to sacrifice to keep those choices alive."
"I had just escaped my life when I ran straight into the heart of a story."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"You were told that my world was a fantasy, weren't you? Well, you were wrong. It is a nightmare."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"But a peculiar isn't just a collection of powers; it’s a way of looking at the world."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs