Quotes - Samra Mir (Sargodha, 04, Pakistan) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
― Colleen Hoover

1749 likes

#2

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

111 likes

#3

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: authors, story, writing

770 likes

#4

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books

509 likes

#5

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: gifts, giving

495 likes

#6

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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#7

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

7616 likes

#8

“There are worse prisons than words.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books

109 likes

#9

“After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, stories, worlds

96 likes

#10

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

3710 likes

#11

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: irony, want, wanting

569 likes

#12

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing

285 likes

#13

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: memory, philosophy, truth

161 likes

#14

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3372 likes

#15

“Don’t judge the way other people connect to God; to each his own way and his own prayer.

God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.”
― Shams Tabrizi, Rumi's Sun: The Teachings of Shams of Tabriz

70 likes

#16

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

4199 likes

#17

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: disappointment, disillusionment, emotional

1264 likes

#18

“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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#19

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

78 likes

#20

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: divorce, divorce-separation-children, we-were-liars

78 likes

#21

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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#22

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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#23

“You can't believe because she tells you to," I said
"No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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#24

“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

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#25

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

192 likes

#26

“Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

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