Sabrina > Sabrina's Quotes

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“How you can love the world
until there’s nothing left to love
but yourself.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Das Leben ist ein Angebot, das man auch ablehnen kann.”
― Juli Zeh, Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess

“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

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five

“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“We’re just queuing for a possibility, queuing for something, maybe queuing for nothing,’ she said, smiling her sad and loving smile. ‘But it will pass, my dear. Even the longest queue dissolves eventually.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Waiting is the cruellest thing I have ever endured. Like bereavement, but with no certainty.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“How strange, she thinks. Belief has grown upon her. Perhaps, she thinks, it is something like a mold.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“No emotion is the final one.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail - we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust