Literature Quotes

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of ‘living a lie’. I came to believe that other people — even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite, and the wounds never close.

I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.

She was desperate and she was choosy at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

People like saying “life's short” a lot. The problem is, they don't really mean it. It actually is short, very short, but they don't believe in its shortness until the very end. Had they truly meant it, our world would have been a really different place. They would know what to do with their lives.

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”