💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"To be human is to love. To be human is to hope. To be human is to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves."
— Rick Yancey Collection The 5th Wave Series #1-3by Rick Yancey
"They’re just taking the pieces of you and scattering them to the wind. You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re just... unwound."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"If you ever find yourself in the position of needing to be someone else, just remember that the best way to be someone else is to be yourself, only better."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"Life doesn't end. It just changes. It's just a matter of perspective, isn't it? One person's end is another person's beginning."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"People who think the soul is in the brain are wrong. It’s in the whole of you, every single part, working together."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"I suppose that’s the problem with being a Tithe. You’re raised to believe that your life isn’t your own, that it’s a gift you have to return."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"We have a right to exist. And as long as we are alive, we have a right to our own bodies. That’s not a request, that’s a fundamental truth."
— Unwindby Neal Shusterman
"Man is no star, and hope is never just a ghost in the dark. It is a light we must carry ourselves."
— Red Risingby Pierce Brown
"You are a Gold. You are a god. And you are better than all of them. Act like it."
— Red Risingby Pierce Brown
"I suddenly realized that we were like two men swimming in the ocean, who, having been carried far out by the current, were now trying to see if we could find our way back to shore."
— Call Me by Your Nameby André Aciman
"I may have come close to what might have been the greatest sorrow of my life, but I was not about to lose the joy that had preceded it."
— Call Me by Your Nameby André Aciman
"You are too intelligent not to know how rare, how fragile, and how utterly irreplaceable all this is."
— Call Me by Your Nameby André Aciman
"Wszyscy mamy w sobie mrok, pytanie tylko, jak głęboko go pogrzebaliśmy."
— Grzeczna dziewczynka, zepsuta krewby Holly Jackson