💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"You don't know someone until you’ve seen them when they think no one is watching."
— The Housemaid's Secretby Freida McFadden
"If you want to survive, you have to be the smartest person in the room—or at least the one who knows how to keep her mouth shut."
— The Housemaid's Secretby Freida McFadden
"You are too good for this world, Beck, but you are not too good for me."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"People like to talk about how books are better than movies, but the truth is, books are better than people."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"I’m not a stalker. I’m a man in love, and in this day and age, you have to be a detective to get the girl."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"You don't know me, but I know you. I know you like your coffee black, I know you leave your apartment window unlocked, and I know you're unhappy."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"It’s easy to get lost in someone, to think their world is yours, to mistake a feeling for a lifetime."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"You are a paradox, Beck. You want to be seen, but you hide in plain sight."
— Youby Caroline Kepnes
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"I’d far rather be happy than right any day."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
"It’s hard to accept that the person you’d die for is the same person who makes life not worth living."
— Shadow Kissby Richelle Mead
"There are some things in life you can't fight, Rose. Some things you just have to accept and move on from, no matter how much they hurt."
— Shadow Kissby Richelle Mead
"Being a guardian means you have to make choices that hurt. It means putting someone else’s life before your own, even if it breaks your heart."
— Shadow Kissby Richelle Mead
"I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m afraid of what’s hiding in it."
— Shadow Kissby Richelle Mead
"The truth is rarely pretty, but it’s always better than a lie."
— Hopelessby Colleen Hoover
"Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would not want to miss a single one."
— Clockwork Angelby Cassandra Clare