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1,930 | “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” | famous_quote |
1,152 | “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” | famous_quote |
574 | “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” | famous_quote |
1,910 | “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” | 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 |
669 | “To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.” | famous_quote |
268 | “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” | famous_quote |
1,283 | “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.” | famous_quote |
923 | “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” | famous_quote |
1,125 | “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.” | famous_quote |
1,529 | “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” | famous_quote |
1,758 | “Reading brings us unknown friends” | famous_quote |
1,594 | “It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.” | famous_quote |
246 | “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” | 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 |
2,178 | “Demon pox, oh demon poxJust how is it acquired?One must go down to the bad part of townUntil one is very tired.Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—Not the pox, you foolish blocks,I mean this very song—For I was right, and you were wrong!""Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear.Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before.Jem let him go. "All right, then."Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned."Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now.” | famous_quote |
2,400 | “That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” | famous_quote |
2,243 | “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach” | famous_quote |
1,939 | “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.” | famous_quote |
929 | “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” | famous_quote |
226 | “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.” | famous_quote |
264 | “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” | famous_quote |
1,395 | “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” | famous_quote |
1,457 | “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” | famous_quote |
645 | “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,258 | “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” | famous_quote |
1,418 | “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” | famous_quote |
1,473 | “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” | famous_quote |
1,387 | “All great and precious things are lonely.” | famous_quote |
1,899 | “You can make anything by writing.” | famous_quote |
2,504 | “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” | famous_quote |
1,249 | “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal” | famous_quote |
981 | “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” | famous_quote |
1,154 | “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” | 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 |
475 | “Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace."It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon."I knew we should have left you a rat.” | famous_quote |
1,821 | “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.” | famous_quote |
985 | “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” | 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 |
1,241 | “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” | famous_quote |
189 | “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” | famous_quote |
1,440 | “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” | famous_quote |
980 | “I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?” | famous_quote |
1,698 | “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” | famous_quote |
1,715 | “A house without books is like a room without windows.” | famous_quote |
40 | “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” | famous_quote |
2,354 | “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” | famous_quote |
942 | “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” | famous_quote |
337 | “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,337 | “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” | famous_quote |
1,098 | “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” | famous_quote |
2,326 | “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” | famous_quote |
895 | “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” | famous_quote |
2,320 | “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” | famous_quote |
1,674 | “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” | famous_quote |
930 | “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” | famous_quote |
288 | “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there” | famous_quote |
723 | “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” | famous_quote |
2,319 | “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” | 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 |
1,089 | “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?” | famous_quote |
482 | “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.” | famous_quote |
935 | “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” | famous_quote |
2,295 | “No good deed goes unpunished.” | famous_quote |
155 | “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.” | famous_quote |
1,070 | “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” | famous_quote |
1,958 | “Did you see that dress?â€� "I saw the dress.â€� "Did you like it?â€� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?â€� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.â€� I smiled and fell asleep.” | famous_quote |
2,501 | “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” | famous_quote |
2,248 | “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.” | famous_quote |
1,683 | “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.” | famous_quote |
123 | “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” | famous_quote |
2,048 | “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!” | famous_quote |
967 | “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” | famous_quote |
854 | “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” | famous_quote |
639 | “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” | famous_quote |
2,238 | “I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.” | famous_quote |
1,602 | “Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically.""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow."How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun."Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.” | famous_quote |
441 | “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” | famous_quote |
1,944 | “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” | famous_quote |
1,838 | “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.” | famous_quote |
1,829 | “He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.” | famous_quote |
2,190 | “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” | famous_quote |
532 | “Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.” | famous_quote |
2,274 | “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” | famous_quote |
1,336 | “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” | famous_quote |
948 | “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” | famous_quote |
2,019 | “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.” | 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 |
550 | “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” | famous_quote |
392 | “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” | famous_quote |
1,787 | “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” | famous_quote |
844 | “War is what happens when language fails.” | famous_quote |
2,257 | “I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.” | famous_quote |
1,138 | “One love, one heart, one destiny.” | famous_quote |
645 | “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,266 | “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?” | famous_quote |
2,454 | “The soul is healed by being with children.” | famous_quote |
1,466 | “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.” | famous_quote |
1,377 | “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” | famous_quote |
141 | “Not all those who wander are lost.” | famous_quote |
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