💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"To understand is to forgive, even if it is to forgive yourself."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"I am a speaker for the dead. I have no interest in the living, except as they remember the dead."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"Nobody is what they seem. Not you, not me, not anyone. We are all lying, all the time. The only way we can tell the truth is by admitting we're liars."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"If you don't know why a man did something, you don't know what he did."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"The truth isn't a thing you can just blurt out. It's a thing that has to be earned."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"There are no monsters, only people who have been pushed to the edge of what they can endure."
— Speaker for the deadby Orson Scott Card
"Many people have the ability to speak to animals, but few have the patience to listen."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"A person’s true reflection is not found in a mirror, but in the truth of their own heart."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"Sometimes you must be lost before you can find yourself."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"There are some things that cannot be taught, only felt; some things that cannot be said, only whispered to the wind."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"You have been a goose girl, a princess, and a beggar. But you have never been anything but yourself."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"Trust is a fragile thing, easily broken and near impossible to mend once shattered."
— Goose Girlby Shannon Hale
"The past is a ghost; it can haunt you, but it can't touch you unless you let it."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"Falling for the enemy is a cliché for a reason—it happens because the temptation is stronger than the fear."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"Trust isn't a gift you give; it's a debt you earn through every secret kept and every promise fulfilled."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"Silence isn't always empty. Sometimes, it’s the loudest thing in the room, screaming all the things you're too afraid to say out loud."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"You can't control what happens to you, but you can control the kind of person you become because of it."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"He was the kind of darkness that made you crave the light, even when you knew the light would burn you."
— Silenceby Becca Fitzpatrick
"If I had a heart, it would be breaking right now."
— Halfway to the Graveby Jeaniene Frost
"You’re not a monster, kitten. You’re a weapon. And weapons are only as good as the hand that wields them."
— Halfway to the Graveby Jeaniene Frost