💬 Quotes
8,730 quotes from great books
"I’ve died a thousand times for you, and I’ve watched you die a thousand times for me. I’m tired of it, Luce."
— Fallenby Lauren Kate
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy Toole
"I am your number one fan. There is nothing to worry about. You are going to be just fine."
— Miseryby Stephen King
"Writing is not a bull session. It's not a parlor game. It's a job for solitary people."
— Miseryby Stephen King
"It’s funny, isn't it? The way you can recover from a real accident, but never really recover from an imagined one."
— Miseryby Stephen King
"Life, which you had always naively assumed to be a free-flowing stream, was actually a series of frozen ruts."
— Miseryby Stephen King
"I’m not a fan of yours anymore, Paul. I’m a fan of Misery. And you’ve killed her."
— Miseryby Stephen King
"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!"
— The Crucible (Penguin Modern Classics)by Arthur Miller
"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
— The Crucible (Penguin Modern Classics)by Arthur Miller
"I have three children—how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?"
— The Crucible (Penguin Modern Classics)by Arthur Miller
"There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country—"
— The Crucible (Penguin Modern Classics)by Arthur Miller
"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson
"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
— The Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare
"What is the most important step a man can take? It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next. Always the next step."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson
"If you give up, you will never reach your destination. You will never have the chance to see if the journey was worth it."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson
"A leader is not someone who stands above the others, but someone who carries the burden so they do not have to."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson
"You must decide what kind of man you want to be. The world is full of people who take, but you have the choice to be someone who gives."
— The Way of Kingsby Brandon Sanderson