Sophie W > Sophie's Quotes

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Whatever I am, let it be enough”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Was it madness, to believe? Or arrogance, to not?”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

“You unmanageable, contrary creature. You have made me believe in something at last. It feels as wretched as I imagined.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
― Aristotle

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

Yes, that is so," said the fox.

But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

Yes, that is so," said the fox.

Then it has done you no good at all!"

It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?

He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
― Orson Welles

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star