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363 | “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.” | famous_quote |
2,368 | “Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.” | famous_quote |
285 | “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” | famous_quote |
148 | “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
2,453 | “Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head."Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls.""Oh, Shut up.” | famous_quote |
455 | “Never laugh at live dragons.” | famous_quote |
1,766 | “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” | famous_quote |
799 | “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” | famous_quote |
1,184 | “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” | famous_quote |
1,012 | “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” | famous_quote |
2,507 | “Silence is so freaking loud” | famous_quote |
1,523 | “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” | famous_quote |
480 | “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” | famous_quote |
1,686 | “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!” | 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 |
1,601 | “Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.You are not the last dream of my soul.You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.With hope at least,Will Herondale” | famous_quote |
2,408 | “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” | famous_quote |
340 | “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” | famous_quote |
2,010 | “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” | famous_quote |
2,496 | “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” | famous_quote |
1,866 | “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.” | famous_quote |
834 | “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” | famous_quote |
1,203 | “Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?""Traded him for Alec," Clary said.Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?""No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back," he added thoughtfully. "In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out.""That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.” | famous_quote |
1,725 | “إن المرأة تØب رجلها ليس لأنه أقوى الرجال، Ùˆ لا أوسمهم، Ùˆ لا أغناهم، بل لأنه هو.. بضعÙ�Ù‡ Ùˆ قوته.. Ùˆ الØب ليس إستعراض قوة لكنه طاقة عطاء داÙ�ئة مستمرة” | famous_quote |
1,689 | “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.” | famous_quote |
310 | “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” | famous_quote |
261 | “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” | famous_quote |
1,442 | “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.” | famous_quote |
405 | “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” | famous_quote |
2,190 | “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” | famous_quote |
341 | “You are, and always have been, my dream.” | famous_quote |
1,339 | “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.” | famous_quote |
243 | “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” | famous_quote |
489 | “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” | famous_quote |
11 | “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | famous_quote |
560 | “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” | famous_quote |
41 | “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” | famous_quote |
593 | “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.” | famous_quote |
1,452 | “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” | famous_quote |
1,826 | “Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.” | famous_quote |
1,693 | “My library is an archive of longings.” | famous_quote |
133 | “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” | famous_quote |
947 | “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” | famous_quote |
72 | “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” | famous_quote |
398 | “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” | famous_quote |
1,428 | “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.” | famous_quote |
129 | “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” | famous_quote |
1,811 | “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” | famous_quote |
2,001 | “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” | famous_quote |
265 | “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.” | famous_quote |
1,560 | “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” | famous_quote |
1,985 | “No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.” | famous_quote |
792 | “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” | famous_quote |
2,300 | “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war” | famous_quote |
1,312 | “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” | famous_quote |
163 | “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” | famous_quote |
94 | “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” | famous_quote |
1,805 | “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.” | famous_quote |
1,133 | “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” | famous_quote |
2,383 | “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” | famous_quote |
821 | “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” | famous_quote |
237 | “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” | famous_quote |
2,428 | “And then I am going to rattle the stars.” | famous_quote |
1,960 | “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” | famous_quote |
1,048 | “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.” | famous_quote |
1,676 | “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.” | famous_quote |
963 | “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” | famous_quote |
536 | “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” | famous_quote |
1,603 | “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” | famous_quote |
1,979 | “Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” | famous_quote |
127 | “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” | famous_quote |
91 | “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” | famous_quote |
542 | “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” | famous_quote |
845 | “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” | famous_quote |
1,681 | “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” | famous_quote |
1,851 | “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” | famous_quote |
2,494 | “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.” | famous_quote |
389 | “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” | famous_quote |
1,884 | “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.” | famous_quote |
42 | “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” | famous_quote |
253 | “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” | famous_quote |
1,083 | “You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!” | 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 |
1,540 | “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” | famous_quote |
1,953 | “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” | famous_quote |
2,392 | “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” | famous_quote |
641 | “Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.” | famous_quote |
2,429 | “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” | famous_quote |
689 | “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” | famous_quote |
1,276 | “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” | famous_quote |
1,950 | “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” | famous_quote |
1,079 | “Ah,â€� said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,â€� said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.” | famous_quote |
1,486 | “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” | famous_quote |
456 | “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” | famous_quote |
982 | “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” | famous_quote |
2,130 | “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” | famous_quote |
1,122 | “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” | famous_quote |
148 | “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” | famous_quote |
1,352 | “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” | famous_quote |
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