Rena > Rena's Quotes

“Let’s be honest, Nora. You’ve got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I’ve got it bad for you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“If you want to be strong, be.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note.”
― Pam Godwin, Dark Notes

“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom …”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“You do not yield.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“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

“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“There’s no force on Earth as strong as a woman who is good and fed up.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance

“I'm not a good man," he says, "but I'm trying. I'm trying. I can't make you any promises of perfection. I can't promise I'll be what you deserve, or what you need, or even what you always want. All I can promise is that I'll love you until the day I die, and I'll spend every moment I'm alive trying for you.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“I'll give her anything.
I'll tear my fucking chest open with my bare hands, rip out my heart and hand it to her, if that's what she needs.
All she has to do is tell me.
All she has to do is ask.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

“The gods are hard to handle — when they come blazing forth in their true power.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”
― Ian Fleming

“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“When they became wicked, they started to talk about brotherhood and humaneness and understood these ideas. When they became criminals, they invented justice and lay down complete codes of law to maintain it, and to secure these codes they erected a guillotine. They remembered only a tiny bit of what they had lost; they didn’t even want to believe that they had once been innocent and happy. They even laughed at the possibility of this former happiness of theirs and called it a dream.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”
― Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die