💬 Quotes

4,434 quotes from great books

"The goddess Nyx chooses those she wants, and she doesn't care about what anyone else thinks."

"I’m not a monster. I’m just a girl who’s been marked by a goddess."

"Being a fledgling isn't just about the change; it's about finding out who you really are when the world stops looking at you the way it used to."

— Markedby P. C. Cast

"Trust is a rare commodity when your entire life has been turned upside down in the blink of an eye."

— Markedby P. C. Cast

"You aren't just a vampire in training, Zoey. You are something more. Something the world hasn't seen in a very long time."

— Markedby P. C. Cast

"The mark is a promise, a destiny that you can either embrace or fight, but you can never truly ignore."

— Markedby P. C. Cast

"Beauty will save the world."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"It is not the brain that matters most, but that which guides it—the character, the heart, generous qualities, and progressive ideas."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"To live without hope is to cease to live."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"There is a limit to everything, which it is dangerous to overstep; for once you have overstepped it, it is impossible to return."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I don't understand how one can pass a tree and not be happy at the sight of it. To talk to a person and not be happy in loving him! Oh, I don't know how to express it... but there are so many things at every step that are so beautiful that even the most lost man would find them beautiful."

— The Idiotby Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"You have to be practical. You have to be realistic. You have to win. And the only way to win is to be ruthless."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

— For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on."

— Othelloby William Shakespeare

"I am not what I am."

— Othelloby William Shakespeare