💬 Quotes
8,730 quotes from great books
"You can spend your whole life trying to run from the monster, but sometimes the monster is the only one who truly understands you."
— Final Girlsby Riley Sager
"Memory is a fickle thing. It likes to edit. It likes to cut out the parts that hurt and polish the ones that make us look like heroes."
— Final Girlsby Riley Sager
"We are the girls who didn't die. That’s the only definition that matters, even if it’s the only one we never asked for."
— Final Girlsby Riley Sager
"If you want to survive, you have to stop looking over your shoulder and start looking directly into the dark."
— Final Girlsby Riley Sager
"The world is full of monsters, and sometimes they’re just people you happen to be stuck in a rest stop with."
— No Exitby Taylor Adams
"I’m not a hero. I’m just a girl who couldn’t stand the thought of someone else dying while I sat on my hands."
— No Exitby Taylor Adams
"You think you know who people are based on the masks they wear, but the mask is just a costume for the darkness underneath."
— No Exitby Taylor Adams
"In the silence between the gusts of wind, you can hear the sound of secrets being kept."
— No Exitby Taylor Adams
"Survival isn't about being the strongest; it’s about being the one who refuses to stop moving when everything tells you to quit."
— No Exitby Taylor Adams
"They say that the best blaze burns the brightest when circumstances are at their worst."
— Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki
"It's not easy being a king's wizard, I tell you. All those people wishing for things that aren't possible."
— Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki
"I’ve had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I’ve got something I want to protect. It’s you."
— Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki
"In the dreams I had, I was always flying. I don't know why, but I feel like I've been doing this for a long time."
— Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki
"One of the good things about being old is that you've got nothing much to lose."
— Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki
"Thus it came to pass that the Silmarils were lost, until the end of the world."
— The Silmarillion (Volume I)by J.R.R. Tolkien
"For the mirth of the Children of Ilúvatar was the mirth of the Earth, and their joy the joy of the Earth."
— The Silmarillion (Volume I)by J.R.R. Tolkien
"Before you can know who you are, you have to know who you’re protecting."
— The Last Thing He Told Meby Laura Dave