Quotes - Ashley (elleashley) Showing 1-30 of 186

#1

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, letters, love

#2

“And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

tags: aaron-warner, assumptions, ignite-me, warner

871 likes

#3

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love

5287 likes

#4

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: beautiful, couples, kiss, love, metaphor, need, ya

3725 likes

#5

“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.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: moon, spiritual

3591 likes

#6

“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

607 likes

#7

“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

564 likes

#8

“You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#9

“I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

283 likes

#10

“This girl is destroying me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

tags: warner

252 likes

#11

“To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

tags: aaron-warner, juliette-ferrars

547 likes

#12

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1331 likes

#13

“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

127 likes

#14

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

2958 likes

#15

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

276 likes

#16

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

5119 likes

#17

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

8629 likes

#18

“The world,” Aelin said, “will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

2304 likes

#19

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

2707 likes

#20

“Your greatest power in seduction is your ability to turn away, to make others come after you, delaying their satisfaction.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#21

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: life, philosophy, wisdom

1448 likes

#22