๐ฌ Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"Many of the things you can see are not worth noticing, and many of the things worth noticing you never see."
โ The phantom tollboothby Norton Juster
"The past is a graveyard, but if you dig deep enough, you might find something that still breathes."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"People are like blank reels of film; we project our own desires onto them until they become the monsters or angels we need them to be."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"Pain is the only thing that proves we aren't just ghosts haunting our own lives."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"To love someone is to eventually reveal the parts of yourself that you have kept buried in the dark."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"We create our own suffering by falling in love with a version of a person that exists only in our imagination."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"The silence in this house is not empty; it is waiting for a reason to scream."
โ Auditionby Ryu Murakami
"The past is a ghost that follows you everywhere, and if you don't find a way to make peace with it, it will eventually devour you whole."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"Everyone is hiding something. Thatโs the baseline of human existence. The only difference between me and the rest of the world is that Iโm honest about my darkness."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"You think you want to be seen, but the moment someone really looks at you, you realize youโd rather be invisible."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"Love is a dangerous thing to play with, but it is the only thing that makes the wreckage of a life feel like a masterpiece."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"Iโm not a monster. Iโm just a man who understands that in order to keep what you love, you sometimes have to prune the garden."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"Los Angeles is a place where you can reinvent yourself, provided youโre willing to kill off the person you used to be."
โ Hidden Bodies - Ich werde dich findenby Caroline Kepnes
"The past is a fixed point, immutable and solid. But memory is a fluid, treacherous thing, shifting its shape to suit the present."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"Everything is connected, if you look closely enough. The butterfly in one room and the bullet in another are part of the same grand, chaotic design."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"Violence is not a sudden eruption; it is the inevitable destination of a path paved with small, overlooked choices."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"We live in a tesseract of our own making, trapped in the dimensions of our regrets, unable to step outside the geometry of what we have done."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"In the city, time does not move in a straight line. It pools in gutters and hangs in the humid air, waiting for someone to trip over it."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"People think they are the authors of their own stories, but we are mostly just the ink, being spilled across pages we didn't choose to write."
โ The Tesseractby Alex Garland
"Everyone wants to know how it happens. How a person becomes a monster. But the monster is not a person. The monster is the story we tell ourselves so we donโt have to look at the person."
โ Notes on an Executionby Danya Kukafka