💬 Quotes

"To change is to survive, but to remember is to remain whole."

"I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us."

"Everything is a story. You are a story. I am a story."

"Whatever comes, she said, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess if I behave like one."

"It is not so easy to be a princess when you are cold and hungry and tired, but it is then that you must try the hardest."

"Perhaps you have made a mistake in your calculations, Miss Minchin. I have not lost my goodness, even if I have lost my fortune."

"To be able to learn is a great thing; to be able to teach is a greater, but to be able to give comfort is the greatest of all."

"If God exists, whence comes evil? If He does not exist, whence comes good?"

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them."

"Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."

"You never get away with anything. You get everything you do. It's just a question of how you pay for it."

"I know all I have to do is not think about it. I know that if you don't think about it, it doesn't happen."

"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you."

"In every factory, in every shop, in every office, there are those who serve and those who are served. I am the one who is served, but I have chosen to serve you."

"There will be generations because of what you did."

"He had no more money. He had nothing left to trade. He had only his own vulnerability."

"You’re not supposed to be here, Luce. You’re not supposed to know me. Not yet."

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

"The feeling of being watched was almost as constant as the feeling of being lonely."