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225 | “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” | famous_quote |
797 | “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!” | famous_quote |
2,331 | “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” | famous_quote |
959 | “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.” | famous_quote |
1,504 | “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” | famous_quote |
452 | “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.” | famous_quote |
815 | “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” | famous_quote |
658 | “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” | famous_quote |
546 | “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” | famous_quote |
1,215 | “The first draft of anything is shit.” | famous_quote |
16 | “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” | famous_quote |
1,243 | “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.” | famous_quote |
2,205 | “Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” | famous_quote |
1,069 | “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” | famous_quote |
2,146 | “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” | famous_quote |
1,768 | “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” | famous_quote |
1,060 | “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” | famous_quote |
2,327 | “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” | famous_quote |
301 | “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” | famous_quote |
180 | “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” | famous_quote |
606 | “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” | famous_quote |
699 | “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” | famous_quote |
992 | “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” | famous_quote |
1,139 | “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.” | famous_quote |
190 | “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” | famous_quote |
2,300 | “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war” | 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 |
2,006 | “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” | famous_quote |
1,184 | “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” | famous_quote |
127 | “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” | famous_quote |
2,065 | “Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before."Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.” | famous_quote |
1,816 | “The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.” | famous_quote |
1,758 | “Reading brings us unknown friends” | famous_quote |
569 | “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” | famous_quote |
1,346 | “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” | famous_quote |
1,895 | “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” | famous_quote |
625 | “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” | famous_quote |
1,686 | “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!” | famous_quote |
154 | “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” | famous_quote |
1,409 | “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.” | famous_quote |
784 | “Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.” | famous_quote |
245 | “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” | famous_quote |
1,500 | “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” | famous_quote |
1,705 | “silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” | famous_quote |
537 | “Hearts are made to be broken.” | famous_quote |
1,890 | “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” | famous_quote |
1,841 | “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” | famous_quote |
920 | “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” | famous_quote |
2,455 | “Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?""Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word.""And you're a big-""Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.” | famous_quote |
524 | “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” | famous_quote |
1,529 | “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” | famous_quote |
35 | “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” | famous_quote |
684 | “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” | famous_quote |
19 | “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” | 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 |
399 | “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” | famous_quote |
971 | “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.” | famous_quote |
1,906 | “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” | famous_quote |
1,166 | “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.” | famous_quote |
1,115 | “There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.” | famous_quote |
833 | “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” | famous_quote |
1,823 | “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” | famous_quote |
1,982 | “My rapier wit hides my inner pain.” | famous_quote |
853 | “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” | famous_quote |
50 | “If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” | 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 |
1,148 | “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” | famous_quote |
2,197 | “Gus: "It tastes like..."Me: "Food."Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."Gus: "Nicely phrased."Gus's father: "Our children are weird."My dad: "Nicely phrased.” | famous_quote |
2,361 | “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” | 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 |
1,715 | “A house without books is like a room without windows.” | famous_quote |
681 | “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” | famous_quote |
837 | “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” | famous_quote |
1,077 | “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” | famous_quote |
2,491 | “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” | famous_quote |
2,311 | “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” | famous_quote |
1,595 | “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” | famous_quote |
4 | “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” | famous_quote |
1,126 | “The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.” | famous_quote |
1,219 | “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...” | famous_quote |
773 | “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” | famous_quote |
876 | “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” | famous_quote |
991 | “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” | famous_quote |
46 | “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” | famous_quote |
268 | “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” | famous_quote |
369 | “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.” | famous_quote |
635 | “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” | famous_quote |
1,129 | “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” | famous_quote |
1,693 | “My library is an archive of longings.” | famous_quote |
1,682 | “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” | famous_quote |
656 | “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.” | famous_quote |
119 | “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” | famous_quote |
830 | “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” | famous_quote |
1,810 | “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” | famous_quote |
1,081 | “Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.” | famous_quote |
1,974 | “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” | famous_quote |
1,369 | “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” | famous_quote |
740 | “If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busyâ€� is another word for “asshole.â€� “Assholeâ€� is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.” | famous_quote |
116 | “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” | famous_quote |
1,853 | “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” | famous_quote |
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