💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"It was like trying to remember a dream that was rapidly fading from your mind, leaving only the shadow of a feeling."
Fallenby Lauren Kate
"I began to see the car not as a transport, but as a theatre, an arena where the most intimate human impulses are staged in metal and glass."
Crashby J. G. Ballard
"We are the first generation to live in a world where the most significant events of our lives take place at sixty miles an hour."
Crashby J. G. Ballard
"Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"I try to make jokes, but sometimes I feel like I'm just laughing so I don't have to cry."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"The gods are not our parents in the way mortals are. They are forces of nature, and we are just the collateral damage."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"My life is a series of things I don't remember, and I’m tired of trying to fit into a story I didn't write."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"Love is the most powerful weapon we have. It’s also the most dangerous because it’s the only thing that can break you."
The Lost Heroby Rick Riordan
"And me? I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it's not some place you can look for, 'cause it's not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"If you travel far enough, you meet yourself."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"I’ve seen a lot of places, and I’ve seen a lot of things. But I’ve never seen anything quite like this. It’s like a postcard, but one you can step into."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"It’s a funny thing about tourists. They think they’re travelers, but they’re just people who buy postcards and look at monuments."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"When you have a secret, it’s not just a thing you keep, it’s a thing that keeps you."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"The problem is that you can’t get away from yourself. You can go to the other side of the world, but you’re still you."
The Beachby Alex Garland
"Everything that is, was before. And everything that will be, has already been."
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel
"It is not what a person is that determines his destiny, but what he does with the spirit he is given."
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel
"The memory of the Clan was not written in books, but etched into the minds of the people, passed down through the blood of the ancestors."
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel
"She was different. She was not of the Clan, yet she lived by its laws, thought with its thoughts, and felt with its feelings."
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel
"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."
The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel