💬 Quotes

"My usual strolls happen to be conducted at a time when London is to be seen, not in the broad glare of day, but in the long and chilly shadows of the night."

"A man's life being the round of a cage-bird, he turns the wheel of his own necessary operations—loses his power for a time—and then goes on again."

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of causes and effects, which makes any one night of every year a night of horror and distress to so many of us."

"It is a most extraordinary thing that people who are bent upon possessions, real or imaginary, always leave a dark footprint of some sort or other on the human scene."

"Any man may be in direct communication with any kind of human nature, and how low soever the common sort of men go, there is a kind of humanity left in them that is akin to all."

"As great a crowd of thoughts and experiences as can be crowded into one night, will sometimes be born away from the wakeful brain."

"Fears are things you shouldn't talk about, because if you do, they grow."

"Your thoughts make you what you are. You are the product of your own thoughts."

"It is not the strong who survive, but those who are most adaptable to change."

"The law is a weapon used by the rich to keep the poor in their place, but even a weapon can be turned against its owner."

"We are all ghosts of our ancestors, living out their unfinished business while trying to write a sentence of our own."

"I will go with you, Jamie. I will go where you go, and I will be where you are. We are one, you and I. We are one flesh and one spirit."

"A man is only as good as the woman he loves, and I am the luckiest man in the world, for I have you."

"The past is a place you can visit, but you cannot live there. You have to move forward, or the memories will eat you alive."

"You are my heart, Bree. But you are not my life. My life is your father."

"It is a dangerous thing to love someone so much that you would lose your soul to keep them, but it is a far more dangerous thing not to love at all."

"We are like the drums of autumn, I think. We echo in the distance, but the sound is fading, changing into something new that we cannot yet understand."

"Slam poetry is about taking the things we're most afraid of saying and turning them into art."

"It's not my life that's pathetic, it's the situations I'm forced to deal with."

"You don't choose the things that hurt you, but you do have some say in how you move forward."