💬 Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"What you see is not always what you get. The truth is a slippery fish."
— The Woman in the Windowby A. J. Finn
"I’m not crazy. I’m just observant. People don’t like being observed, that’s all."
— The Woman in the Windowby A. J. Finn
"Memory is a fickle thing. It edits, it embellishes, it excludes; it plays tricks on us."
— The Woman in the Windowby A. J. Finn
"You can watch the world go by, but you’re not really in it. You’re just a ghost in your own life."
— The Woman in the Windowby A. J. Finn
"One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and—pop!—out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar."
— Very Hungry Caterpillar CDby Eric Carle
"The past is a living thing. It doesn't die, it doesn't rot, it just waits for you to turn your back."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"You think you know a person because you know their secrets, but you don't. You only know the weight they’ve been carrying."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"Violence is a language. Some people speak it fluently, while others are just learning the alphabet."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"Grief is not a process. It is a state of being, like breathing or blinking. It is the background radiation of your life."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"Women are taught to be afraid, but they are never taught how to survive their own fear."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"The truth is a jagged edge. It cuts everyone it touches, but at least it leaves a clean wound."
— Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"Destiny is not a straight line, but a path we carve ourselves through the choices we make."
— Eragonby Christopher Paolini