💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"I don’t want your forgiveness. I want your surrender, your chaos, and every dark corner of your heart."
— Viciously Yoursby Jamie Applegate Hunter
"We are two broken pieces of a fractured crown, fitting together only because we’ve both known the edge of the blade."
— Viciously Yoursby Jamie Applegate Hunter
"Love is not a soft thing, little star. It is a war, and I have already claimed victory over your soul."
— Viciously Yoursby Jamie Applegate Hunter
"It’s funny the way different people know different parts of you. I’m not the same person to Mom as I am to Leah as I am to Abby as I am to Blue."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"I want to know who you are. I want to know everything about you. I want to know your favorite color and your favorite song and your favorite movie."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"It’s a weird thing,, being gay. Like, it’s a huge part of who I am, but it shouldn’t be the only thing people see when they look at me."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"Why is straight the default? Everyone just assumes you’re straight until you tell them otherwise."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never truly know each other."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"I’m tired of living in the middle. I want to be able to breathe. I want to be able to just be me."
— Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Special Editionby Becky Albertalli
"To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"I’m not going to tell you it’s going to be okay, because it isn’t. But you’re not alone, and that has to count for something."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"The world is full of monsters, Clary. They hide in plain sight, and they look like people you think you know."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"I don't care what you think. I care about what I have to do, and I don't have to apologize for that."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. It’s a bitter pill, but the medicine is necessary."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"You are a Shadowhunter. You were born to fight, born to bleed, and born to die for a cause you don’t even fully understand."
— City of Ashesby Cassandra Clare
"I can tell you who you are, but I can't tell you who you were."
— The Bourne identityby Robert Ludlum
"The man who does not know his past is a man who cannot plan for his future."
— The Bourne identityby Robert Ludlum
"If you're a professional, you don't take chances. You make sure."
— The Bourne identityby Robert Ludlum
"I am not a killer by nature, but I am a killer by trade. And I am very good at my trade."
— The Bourne identityby Robert Ludlum
"The enemy you know is always better than the enemy you don't know."
— The Bourne identityby Robert Ludlum