💬 Quotes
4,434 quotes from great books
"You won't understand, but you must believe me: there is no shame in surviving. But there is no glory in it, either."
— A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
"Wasn't that the point of life, to see how much pain you could endure, how much you could absorb and still keep walking?"
— A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
"You are who you are, Jude St. Francis. You have always been who you are. You are not your past."
— A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
"We are all broken, each in our own way, and the art of living is in finding someone whose brokenness fits with your own."
— A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
"There is a time in your life when you expect the world to be fair, and there is a time when you realize it isn't. The transition between these two times is the end of childhood."
— A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
"It is not the man who is the most brilliant who is the most successful, but the man who is the most consistent."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"I shall be doing one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, loving you, and longing for you, and keeping back tears for you, till sight fails and speech fails me."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"Vanity, indeed, is the beginning and the end of all our actions."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"He is a man who will never be in any man's way, and who will never be a burden to any woman."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"When a woman once accepts the idea of marriage, she becomes a new creature, and her old life is as a forgotten dream."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, so to speak, that the doors of the world are wide open."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"The people who run the world are the people who can hold the most information in their heads, and the people who can't are just along for the ride."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"I am Hiro Protagonist, and I am the last of the freelance hackers and the greatest fighter in the Metaverse."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"People were always letting you down. Books were safe. Books didn't change their minds."
— Fangirlby Rainbow Rowell
"He looked at her the way people look at fire. Like he was afraid of it, but he couldn't stop watching."
— Fangirlby Rainbow Rowell
"Why do you have to be so weird about everything? It’s just people, Cath. It’s just life."
— Fangirlby Rainbow Rowell
"It’s hard to let go of the things you love, even when you know they’re holding you back."
— Fangirlby Rainbow Rowell
"Magic is not a gift given to the chosen; it is a weight earned by the desperate."
— Shadows of Perlby J. Elle