Quotes - Zafra (zafrausman) (Sri Lanka) Showing 1-30 of 173

#1

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11252 likes

#2

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20727 likes

#3

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148398 likes

#4

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109283 likes

#5

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

9860 likes

#6

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4322 likes

#7

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

tags: karou

819 likes

#8

“Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

416 likes

#9

“Imagine if [Juliet] woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But [Romeo] had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

257 likes

#10

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

2149 likes

#11

“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

tags: celaena-sardothien

2805 likes

#12

“There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

tags: future, past, present

187 likes

#13

“Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

tags: dogam

188 likes

#14

“Life doesnt need magic to be magical.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

141 likes

#15

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

tags: humor

313 likes

#16

“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

997 likes

#17

“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

354 likes

#18

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

2515 likes

#19

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

3113 likes

#20

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven

2003 likes

#21

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places

2610 likes

#22

“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

395 likes

#23

“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

824 likes

#24

“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

1216 likes

#25

“Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: aedion-ashryver, aelin-galathynius, queen-of-shadows

950 likes

#26

“She looked at them, at the three males who meant everything—more than everything. Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. “Let’s go rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: aedion-ashryver, aelin-galathynius, queen-of-shadows, rowan-whitethorn

1405 likes

#27

“She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

644 likes

#28

“So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

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#29

“That's what I've learned over the years. We always think someone else has it easier than us but, when you pull back the layers, you see that they are struggling too, just in their own, unique way.”
― Na'ima B. Robert, She Wore Red Trainers

25 likes

#30

“Islam isn't like that - something you can use just to get what you want. It's a genuine spiritual commitment, a way of life...”
― Na'ima B. Robert, She Wore Red Trainers

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