๐ฌ Quotes
4,770 quotes from great books
"The Light blind you, Rand al'Thor! You are the Dragon Reborn, and you had better start acting like it."
โ The Eye of the Worldby Robert Jordan
"Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain."
โ The Eye of the Worldby Robert Jordan
"You can never know everything. You can only know what you know, and hope it is enough."
โ The Eye of the Worldby Robert Jordan
"If you follow the road long enough, it will eventually lead you to yourself."
โ The Eye of the Worldby Robert Jordan
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"Reason is not a universal talent, which every man is born with, but a particular gift, which is improved by culture and exercise."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"When I behold a lump of deformity and diseases both in body and mind smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience."
โ Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
"She is a story told in the margins, a song hummed in the dark, a name whispered in the wind."
โ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueby V.E. Schwab
"You can leave a mark on the world, but you cannot force the world to remember you for it."
โ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueby V.E. Schwab
"Be careful what you pray for, and who you pray to, and what you are willing to trade for it."
โ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueby V.E. Schwab
"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be."
โ Love You Foreverby Robert N. Munsch
"He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he cried all day."
โ Love You Foreverby Robert N. Munsch
"He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner."
โ Love You Foreverby Robert N. Munsch
"The mother went into the room, and she picked up her grown-up son and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth."
โ Love You Foreverby Robert N. Munsch
"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my mommy you'll be."
โ Love You Foreverby Robert N. Munsch
"It was a simple fact that if you sang, you were not afraid of anything."
โ Bel Canto/bel Cantoby Ann Patchett