๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,730 quotes from great books

"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
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television."
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"We were making the most of it, living for the moment, because the future was just another way of getting fucked."
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"It takes a lot of effort to be a heroin addict. You're never really off the clock."
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it."
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"Weโ€™d do anything, absolutely anything, to get off our faces, because thatโ€™s the only way we can stand the shite world we live in."
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
โ€” Trainspottingby Henning Bock
"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