Literary Quotes Quotes

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Our story began with uncertainty, and with uncertainty, it ended—not with a bang, but a whisper.”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone

“A quote is worth a thousand books.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“One thing I hate about being ill is that no one believes it unless I share it all with them, and even then they don’t act on it.”
― Gillian Polack, Borderlanders

“We preach authenticity as the ideal, yet often reward conformity. The world spins on the axis of 'just be yourself,' while whispering 'but not like that.”
― Aura Biru

“The earth rises and seems to spread like a mist. The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights, I have seen the sky streaked with so many trialing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The term “ethical boundaries” is often too vague to offer real guidance, so I would like to recommend a specific rule to replace it: "allow AI to perform any task that a human editor normally performs”.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, conceived and executed by a clever young woman, must be claimed by a man.”
― Tirzah Price, Pride and Premeditation

“Sadly for the books these days there are more writers than readers”
― BS Murthy

“I’m wheelin my bike along the sidewalk, watchin all the white faces, watchin me.”
― Simon Van der Velde, Backstories

“Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late.”
― Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

“Don’t be scared, even if things change. Don’t forget to keep writing. Welcome to the House of Dreams.”
― Gillian Polack, Borderlanders

“Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.”
― Johnny Firic, The Oldest Word

“Can there be one best way to tend a garden, one best way to love, one truest cause for love? No. It equates free will with submission.”
― Johnny Firic, The Oldest Word

“The simple ineluctable truth is that desire has no bearing on our duties.”
― Johnny Firic, The Oldest Word

“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the frontier, a quicksilver cavern to adorn forever?”
― Johnny Firic, The Oldest Word

“I drank a bitter cup of ale, a cupful of fancy, and thoughts slide beyond the mountain rill; clasping every fairness to the quill, the scent of flowers, the musical choir of birds, o’ air! the Divine here! for a poet’s joy to sigh!”
― Nithin Purple

“The woods can be strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you didn't notice.”
― Jim Harrison-Brown Dog

“Folded the eyes: inner a vision divine, a glistening dream, the dark increased the light, to not let me stay closed, I opened the eyes: near the dream comes true.”
― Nithin Purple

“In books we can live different lives, be different people, visit far-off places, without moving a muscle (ok except eye muscles) (and page-turning muscles)”
― Dear Edna Sloane Book by Amy Shearn

“I have watched life play this game as if I was never a part of it.”
― Akshat Pathak, Within the Valves of my Heart..

“Those tender lips, whose dimpled sway
Can even chase suspense away!”
― Mary Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie

“o que havia me ligado a ele era a mesma fé desesperada que depositávamos na enteléquia da vida, encarnada para nós pela literatura. Não pensávamos de modo algum que ela pudesse salvar o mundo; ao contrário, pensávamos que ela era o único meio de não se salvar do mundo.”
― Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

“Hunt. Gather. Kill. Endure. Habits, in time, birth order. Order forms structure.”
― Nicholas Nikita, Logos

“Therein lies the rub'...
William S. once put
those words into the mouth of a troubled Danish prince and people can't stop repeating them to this day.
Well, I'm writing, too. I am putting words into the mouths of my characters, filling their minds with problems, burning their ears with gossip, creating problems for them, and I am revealing their secrets to boot.”
― Sosanni Valtsioti

“The world can be wild. So I draw windows into gentler corners.”
― Eliza Thorncroft

“The world folded in on itself - quiet, final & far from me.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“I loved you once.

It was a love so powerful, so mighty

Yet so tender, so ethereal, so genuine, A love which, at the time, I believed Had circumstances been different, It would have been extraordinaryanan A love so passionate, I would willingly die for you If I had to. Because your life Means more to me than mine.

I believed you also loved me once In the same way, with the same passion. I believed our love Was from another time, That it was an eternal love, Where with each rebirth,

We would reencounter each other again, That your love for me was so mighty, You would also give your life for me.

I was wrong...

As much as I would have taken The blade of a sword for you That you would live, I realised you would never Do the same for me.

You love yourself more than you love me.

I would sacrifice my life for you, But you would not do so for me.

That if only one of us could stay on the boat, You would push me off for self preservation.

So I will make my ultimate sacrifice. You don't need to push me off. I am jumping off the vessel so you will live. Because both you and I agree Your life is worth more than mine.

But in jumping, I'm taking back my love for you. You can't have it anymore. Because you shan't have it both ways. My love for you dies with me at the bottom Of the sea.”
― Onur Taşkıran