💬 Quotes

4,302 quotes from great books

"What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about being weak?"
The Cruel Princeby Holly Black
"Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop."
The Cruel Princeby Holly Black
"I am not afraid of you. I am only afraid of what you might make me do."
The Cruel Princeby Holly Black
"That is the trouble with people who are born into power. They think it is something they possess, rather than something that is lent to them."
The Cruel Princeby Holly Black
"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
Paper Townsby John Green
"That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste."
Paper Townsby John Green
"You can’t see me, can you? You’re just seeing the version of me you’ve made up in your head."
Paper Townsby John Green
"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and unimaginable all at once."
Paper Townsby John Green
"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
Paper Townsby John Green
"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."
Paper Townsby John Green
"If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again."
The Complete Calvin and Hobbesby Bill Watterson
"Being a hero isn't about being invincible; it's about being brave enough to do what's right, even when you're terrified."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"The past is never really behind us. It’s a part of who we are, and sometimes, it’s the ghost that haunts our future."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"Love is not a weakness. It is the only thing that makes the fighting worthwhile."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"You can't choose who you fall in love with, but you can choose what you're willing to sacrifice to keep them safe."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"Monsters are not always under the bed. Sometimes they are the people we trust the most, hiding behind a mask of normalcy."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"We are all broken in some way, and that is exactly how the light gets in."
City of Fallen Angelby Cassandra Clare
"Things can change in a day. That in a reckless serendipitous flick of the world, an universe could zip out of existence and leave a life behind."
The god of small thingsby Arundhati Roy
"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again."
The god of small thingsby Arundhati Roy
"That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much."
The god of small thingsby Arundhati Roy