๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,730 quotes from great books

"Women are taught to be afraid, but they are never taught how to survive their own fear."
โ€” Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"The truth is a jagged edge. It cuts everyone it touches, but at least it leaves a clean wound."
โ€” Pretty Girlsby Karin Slaughter
"Live life for the moment, for we are only here for a short while."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"I do not fight with my sword alone, but with my mind as well."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"Destiny is not a straight line, but a path we carve ourselves through the choices we make."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"The only way to overcome fear is to face it head-on, not to flee from it."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"A name is the most powerful tool in the world, for to know a thing's true name is to hold dominion over it."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"Perhaps I am not the rider I wish to be, but I am the rider I must be."
โ€” Eragonby Christopher Paolini
"Sometimes the past isn't behind us; it's waiting in the basement, just beneath the floorboards, holding its breath."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"Memory is a fickle architect. It builds houses out of shadows and calls them home."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"The truth is a jagged piece of glass. You can hold it, but eventually, itโ€™s going to cut you."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"We spend our lives running away from the ghosts of our parents, only to find that weโ€™ve been wearing their masks all along."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"A house doesn't remember who lived there, but the trees do. They hold the silence, and they know exactly what was buried in the dark."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"Forgiveness isn't about letting the past go; itโ€™s about making sure it doesn't decide your future."
โ€” Home Before Darkby Todd Ritter
"Hope isnโ€™t a feeling. Itโ€™s a trick. A lie we tell ourselves to keep from drowning."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager
"The past doesn't stay buried, Kit. It just waits for the tide to go out."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager
"Everyone has a secret, Lenora. Some are just written in blood instead of ink."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager
"Being the only one left doesn't mean you won. It just means you were the last one standing when the music stopped."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager
"Lies are like roots. The deeper they go, the harder it is to pull them out without destroying the house."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager
"Sometimes the monster isn't under the bed. Sometimes, the monster is the one holding the flashlight."
โ€” Only One Leftby Riley Sager