๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"I don't think I can stand the silence. I don't think I can stand the noise."
โ€” Dead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris
"If you are going to be a hero, you have to be willing to bleed a little."
โ€” Dead Until Darkby Charlaine Harris
"The difference between a cure and a corpse is often nothing more than a fraction of a milligram and a steady hand."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"They call it murder, but nature calls it chemistry. I simply accelerate what time would eventually demand of us all."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"Never trust a patron who offers gold before they have tasted the vintage; the greedy are always the first to choke on their own ambition."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"To know the poison is to know the man. One manโ€™s death is a tragedy, anotherโ€™s is a necessary titration of the social order."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"There is a quiet intimacy in being the last person to watch the color fade from someoneโ€™s eyesโ€”a secret kept between the toxin and the soul."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"I do not seek to be remembered by history; I seek only to ensure that those who are remembered die exactly when I decide they should."
โ€” Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Masterby K. Ritz
"My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"In families, there are no crimes beyond our capacity to forgive. I forget nothing. I forgive nothing. It is a family tradition."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"The truth is a very precious thing. It is something we spend our entire lives trying to uncover, but it is also something we spend our entire lives trying to hide."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"I think of how we have been shaped by our past, how we are defined by the people who raised us, and how we are imprisoned by the myths we create about our own lives."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"We are the sum of our memories. We vary according to what we have done, what we have suffered, and what we have been taught."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"I came to realize that the past is a ghost that haunts us, but it is also a teacher that guides us if we are willing to listen."
โ€” The Prince of Tidesby Pat Conroy
"One day I will have to tell you everything. But not now. I cannot bear it yet."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel
"The price of survival was the surrender of my soul, and I have been paying it in installments ever since."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel
"I think that to understand what happened there, one must first understand what it is to lose everything one loves."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel
"Pain is never just pain; it is a memory that refuses to be forgotten."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel
"Fate is a blind force, but it chooses its victims with a terrifying precision."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel
"In the end, there was no choice at all, only the crushing weight of having been forced to make one."
โ€” Sophie's Choiceby Patrick Badonnel