💬 Quotes

"If you are to be a good wife, you must learn to hide your true self. A woman’s heart should be like a locked box, revealed only to those who truly understand its weight."

"Nu shu is our secret language, a bridge we build across the silence of our rooms to let our souls touch."

"We are two halves of the same soul, linked by a fan that carries our hopes, our sorrows, and the truths we dare not speak aloud."

"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine."

"I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."

"You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!"

"I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!"

"The woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today."

"He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong."

"I’ve been waiting in front of that building six years, and I never saw him take a notice of me."

"Only you can decide what breaks you."

"We are the monsters that evil fears."

"Pity is for those who are helpless, and I am not helpless."

"There are different kinds of darkness. There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful."

"I would have come for you, sooner if I could. But I had to wait until I knew you were strong enough to survive the choice."

"To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered."

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed."

"Human suffering confronts us, so to speak, at every turn. Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us."

"I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."

"Where is God? Where is He? ... Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows."