๐Ÿ’ฌ 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. Thatโ€™s the baseline of human existence. The only difference between me and the rest of the world is that Iโ€™m 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 youโ€™d 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
"Iโ€™m not a monster. Iโ€™m 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 youโ€™re 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 donโ€™t have to look at the person."
โ€” Notes on an Executionby Danya Kukafka