๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?"
โ€” No country for old menby Cormac McCarthy
"I always figured when I got old the world would be different. But it ain't. It's just me."
โ€” No country for old menby Cormac McCarthy
"There's no point in keeping score. It's just a way of putting off the inevitable."
โ€” No country for old menby Cormac McCarthy
"You don't have to do this. There's a lot of things you don't have to do, but you do them anyway."
โ€” No country for old menby Cormac McCarthy
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"Anything dead coming back to life hurts."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"Beat me, hate me. You can kill me and die; you can kill me and live. But you can't touch what I know."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"It was not a story to pass on."
โ€” Belovedby Toni Morrison
"I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You wouldn't understand."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"I want you to want me, but I want you to want me on my terms."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"I'm fifty shades of fucked up, Anastasia."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"My life has a very carefully controlled order, and you, Miss Steele, are a chaotic element."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"The heart wants what the heart wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"I don't make love. I fuck... hard."
โ€” Fifty Shades of Greyby E L James
"The car crash was the only experience that had been real, the only moment that had been entirely authentic."
โ€” Crashby J. G. Ballard
"I was interested in the car as a machine, as a kind of erotic probe, but above all as a vehicle of psychological transformation."
โ€” Crashby J. G. Ballard
"The highway is a landscape of the mind, a geometry of desire where the concrete curves are shaped by our own suppressed violence."
โ€” Crashby J. G. Ballard
"She was a creature of chrome and windshields, her body a map of scars that chronicled the speed and collision of our age."
โ€” Crashby J. G. Ballard