๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"Each of us is a different kind of daughter, but together we are the same kind of woman."
โ€” The Joy Luck Club.by Amy Tan
"You must peel off your blindfolds and seeโ€”fear is both the enemy and the friend. You must face it, or it will swallow you whole."
โ€” The Joy Luck Club.by Amy Tan
"We are lost, she and I, unseen and unheard, until we learn to speak the language of our own hearts."
โ€” The Joy Luck Club.by Amy Tan
"The past isn't behind you. It's beneath you. It's the ground you're standing on."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"In this business, you don't retire. You just run out of time."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"You can change your name, you can change your city, you can change your clothes, but you canโ€™t change your zip code in hell."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"The trick to staying alive wasn't being the fastest or the meanest; it was being the guy who remembered how the trap was set."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"Trust is a luxury, but in my line of work, it's a death sentence."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"Every man has a closing date. Most just don't know it's already been written on the ledger."
โ€” The Winter of Frankie Machineby Don Winslow
"Human beings have forgotten what is real. Nothing has any meaning anymore. That's why the Nothing is getting so big."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"If you want to reach the goal, you must see the obstacles as part of the path."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"To do what you dream, you must first dream what you want to do."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"Fantastica is the Story of the Neverending Story. And the story is written by all those who tell it."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"There are many kinds of doors to other worlds. Some are opened by a push, others by a turn of a handle, and some by a simple wish."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"Bastian had learned one thing: he could not escape himself, no matter how many other lives he lived in books."
โ€” Neverending Storyby Michael Ende
"So many things are possible just as long as you donโ€™t know theyโ€™re impossible."
โ€” The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster
"It's much easier to go down hill than up, but it's much better to see the view from the top."
โ€” The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster
"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do."
โ€” The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster
"Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right."
โ€” The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster
"Itโ€™s a poor excuse for a place, but itโ€™s a place, and itโ€™s a start."
โ€” The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster