💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Everything is going to be alright, but not in the way you expect."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"The past is a ghost; it is not meant to be lived in, only remembered."
— Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Childrenby Ransom Riggs
"He offered no judgment, no criticism, only an unwavering, slobbery, and often inconvenient love."
— Marley & Meby John Grogan
"It’s not how much you have, it’s what you do with what you have. He lived his life to the absolute limit every single day."
— Marley & Meby John Grogan
"He was the world’s worst dog, but he was also the best dog a family could ever hope for."
— Marley & Meby John Grogan
"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears."
— East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open."
— East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. ... Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil."
— East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"A man who wants nothing but the truth is a man who is rarely loved."
— East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"Whatever you do, it will be only a drop in the ocean. But what is the ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
— East of Edenby John Steinbeck
"Cuando la gente no habla, muere un pedazo de sí misma."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Mi boca se siente como si estuviera llena de lana, de adoquines, de una alfombra vieja. No puedo hablar."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"El arte es el lugar donde puedes ser quien realmente eres, sin miedo a ser juzgada."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Si no escuchas, no puedes aprender. Si no aprendes, no puedes cambiar."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"A veces, el silencio no es una elección; es una celda que uno mismo construye."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Debo dejar que el dolor salga, o me consumirá por dentro. Debo aprender a decir mi verdad."
— Habla / Speak (Spanish Edition)by Laurie Halse Anderson
"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the guts of his children? You can't scare him; he has known a fear beyond every other."
— Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
"I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere—wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there."
— Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck