💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"You can't save everyone. You have to decide who matters most."
— The Death Cureby James Dashner
"Everything is going to change. There’s no going back to the way it was before. There’s only what comes next."
— The Death Cureby James Dashner
"Being pretty is just a state of mind, but being beautiful is a state of grace."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"The bubbly is the best part of being a Pretty, but the emptiness is the price you pay for it."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"You aren't you anymore. You're just a version of yourself that everyone else wants to see."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"It’s not enough to be pretty. You have to be perfect, or else they’ll find the crack in your porcelain skin."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"Every secret is a weight, and I've been carrying a mountain for a long time."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"We were made to be beautiful, not to be human. That was the mistake."
— Prettiesby Scott Westerfeld
"The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why. I wish they did. God knows, I have so many questions."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"We are all of us haunted by the people we have been, and by the people we might have become, and by the people we have failed to be."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"It is a rare and beautiful thing to find a person who makes you feel as if you are the only one in the world, and for that person to be your soulmate."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"I may never understand the patterns of the universe, but I understand the importance of being in the right place at the right time to do the right thing."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"The past is a ghost that walks through the house of the present, and sometimes, if you are quiet enough, you can hear it breathing."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
— Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"Le monde ne change pas, il se contente de changer de costume pour la même danse macabre."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Nous gardons les cendres, non pas pour le feu qu'elles ont été, mais pour l'étincelle qu'elles pourraient redevenir."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"L'homme est un animal capable de construire une cathédrale pour glorifier Dieu, tout en préparant le poison qui détruira sa création."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"La mémoire est un fardeau que l'humanité s'obstine à jeter à chaque fois qu'elle devient trop lourde à porter."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Il n'y a pas de fin à l'histoire, seulement des recommencements déguisés en progrès."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Dieu a donné à l'homme le libre arbitre, mais l'homme en a fait une guillotine pour sa propre tête."
— L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков