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2,113 | “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” | famous_quote |
1,252 | “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” | famous_quote |
260 | “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.” | famous_quote |
2,046 | “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” | famous_quote |
1,472 | “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” | famous_quote |
1,447 | “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.” | famous_quote |
459 | “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” | famous_quote |
300 | “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.” | famous_quote |
2,334 | “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” | famous_quote |
629 | “Books may well be the only true magic.” | famous_quote |
269 | “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” | famous_quote |
1,993 | “Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.” | famous_quote |
1,628 | “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” | famous_quote |
1,801 | “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” | famous_quote |
861 | “You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain."What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent.” | famous_quote |
1,280 | “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” | famous_quote |
2,180 | “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
1,706 | “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” | famous_quote |
2,360 | “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” | famous_quote |
575 | “Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.” | famous_quote |
2,003 | “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” | famous_quote |
1,307 | “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” | famous_quote |
1,956 | “Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.” | famous_quote |
2,020 | “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” | famous_quote |
2,212 | “Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.” | famous_quote |
2,352 | “I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.” | famous_quote |
1,655 | “If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.” | famous_quote |
1,579 | “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” | famous_quote |
1,847 | “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” | famous_quote |
2,203 | “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” | famous_quote |
1,390 | “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” | famous_quote |
1,742 | “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” | famous_quote |
1,925 | “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.” | famous_quote |
619 | “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” | famous_quote |
1,274 | “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” | famous_quote |
956 | “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.” | famous_quote |
1,939 | “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.” | famous_quote |
2,381 | “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” | famous_quote |
968 | “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” | famous_quote |
1,316 | “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” | famous_quote |
1,043 | “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” | famous_quote |
281 | “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” | famous_quote |
2,166 | “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” | famous_quote |
1,058 | “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” | famous_quote |
197 | “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” | famous_quote |
1,082 | “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” | famous_quote |
1,184 | “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” | famous_quote |
1,008 | “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” | famous_quote |
1,229 | “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?” | famous_quote |
1,035 | “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” | famous_quote |
489 | “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” | famous_quote |
275 | “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” | famous_quote |
2,289 | “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,239 | “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” | famous_quote |
1,274 | “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” | famous_quote |
125 | “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” | famous_quote |
216 | “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” | famous_quote |
1,208 | “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” | famous_quote |
1,246 | “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.” | famous_quote |
2,474 | “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” | famous_quote |
918 | “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” | famous_quote |
1,317 | “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?” | famous_quote |
2,198 | “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” | famous_quote |
2,431 | “People, generally, suck.” | famous_quote |
1,661 | “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” | famous_quote |
307 | “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” | famous_quote |
1,359 | “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” | famous_quote |
1,969 | “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” | famous_quote |
891 | “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” | famous_quote |
374 | “May you live every day of your life.” | famous_quote |
2,033 | “Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” | famous_quote |
1,364 | “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” | famous_quote |
128 | “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.” | famous_quote |
1,014 | “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
1,381 | “Though she be but little, she is fierce!” | famous_quote |
516 | “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.” | famous_quote |
1,518 | “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” | famous_quote |
85 | “You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.” | famous_quote |
1,198 | “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” | famous_quote |
2,358 | “Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane” | famous_quote |
1,142 | “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” | famous_quote |
2,474 | “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” | famous_quote |
1,993 | “Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.” | famous_quote |
2,161 | “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” | famous_quote |
302 | “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” | famous_quote |
587 | “Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” | famous_quote |
986 | “Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?” | famous_quote |
1,863 | “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” | famous_quote |
344 | “Don't think or judge, just listen.” | famous_quote |
813 | “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” | famous_quote |
1,987 | “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” | famous_quote |
1,310 | “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” | famous_quote |
1,999 | “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” | famous_quote |
1,677 | “A lot of you cared, just not enough.” | famous_quote |
1,327 | “Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace” | famous_quote |
1,092 | “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” | famous_quote |
2,408 | “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” | famous_quote |
1,009 | “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” | famous_quote |
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