Quotes - Katie (whatkatiereadnext) Showing 1-30 of 196

#1

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: inspirational, travel

#2

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4768 likes

#3

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5388 likes

#4

“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

292 likes

#5

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101563 likes

#6

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

19554 likes

#7

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26197 likes

#8

“We don't belong anywhere, because we can belong everywhere.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers

17 likes

#9

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

3897 likes

#10

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

339 likes

#11

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17493 likes

#12

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

5404 likes

#13

“All children, except one, grow up.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

1274 likes

#14

“He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

2 likes

#15

“Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

tags: entitlement, poetry, privilege

21 likes

#16

“But on dark days he likes to walk
Beside the heartsick sea.
And as the waves begin to howl
He drops down to his knees,
And cries for all he's lost
And for all he used to be.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

18 likes

#17

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3439 likes

#18

“The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we’ll work to keep them.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

23 likes

#19

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: psychology

232 likes

#20

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31231 likes

#21

“It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

1 likes

#22

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice

3065 likes

#23

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

10682 likes

#24

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

4726 likes

#25

“Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

10 likes

#26

“Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

8 likes

#27

“Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

29 likes

#28

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

3315 likes

#29

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

2789 likes

#30

“When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.”
― Meg Howrey, The Cranes Dance

tags: art, dance, performance, theatre

21 likes

Katie > Katie's Quotes

Tags From Katie’s Quotes