968 quotes found
“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
“We feel through our minds, we live through our hearts, and we love through our eyes.”
“God wants to rescue us, not destroy us. You don't have to be afraid of being happy, thinking that he wants to take that happiness away from you That's not who he is." "How can you be sure?" "Becaus...”
“The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your l...”
“A man cannot own more than his heart can love.”
“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they kill you or even if you die. And go now while you're still youn...”
“Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les vea volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvanecindose poco a poco en su tiempo, volvindose recuerdos, brumas de otra poca, ha...”
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”
“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.”
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems ab...”
“Lucifer had been ranting his endless laundry list of complaints for forty-five minutes now, and Louhi still didnt know exactly what she was supposed to apologize for. There was something about her ...”
“Today was ananthropomorphic day: once a month, the gods got to take a holiday from humdrum humanoid shapes and look any way they wanted. Since most gods are versatile shape-shifters and/or have god...”
“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“As many of you know, I am not very fond of the human race. However, I will not let them die by the hands of our species nor any other. For thousands of years, we've walked this earth in peace with ...”
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.”
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.”
“If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.”
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
