💬 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
"The house is my sanctuary. The house is my prison."
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
"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf."
Very Hungry Caterpillar CDby Eric Carle
"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
"He started to look for some food."
Very Hungry Caterpillar CDby Eric Carle
"He was a big, fat caterpillar."
Very Hungry Caterpillar CDby Eric Carle
"He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself."
Very Hungry Caterpillar CDby Eric Carle
"He was a beautiful butterfly!"
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
"Live life for the moment, for we are only here for a short while."
Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"I do not fight with my sword alone, but with my mind as well."
Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"Destiny is not a straight line, but a path we carve ourselves through the choices we make."
Eragonby Christopher Paolini