Big Books of 2026

Tell Quotes

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Jodi Picoult
“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
tags: amish, drama, empty, fiction, filled, jodi-picoult, love, mystery, novel, okay, plain-truth, say, speak, tell, truth
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Ernest Hemingway
“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”
― Ernest Hemingway
tags: show, show-don-t-tell, tell
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Erik Pevernagie
“Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega")”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: alpha-and-omega, brushwood, butterfly, deep-waters, emotions, hidden, inner-self, love, secrecy, tell, things
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Erik Pevernagie
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: alluring, appear, attractive, barren, blend, confidence, delusion, fence, grass, grassland, green, greener, hear, like, niceties, often, other, parched, people, politician, politicians, post-factual, promise, side, tales, tell, things, to-voice, tricks, use
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Erik Pevernagie
“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth… until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: alone, become, believe, bowling, bubble, burst, emotion, factoid, facts, fiction, grab, in-the-end, life, mix, politicians, reiterate, storytellers, tantalizing, tell, truth, unremitting, want
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Paula Danziger
“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
― Paula Danziger
tags: detail, embarrassing, forget, pain, painful, silly, story, tell, truth, write, writer, writing
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H.C. Paye
“It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.”
― H.C. Paye
tags: communication, missunderstand, people, speak, tell, two
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Alison G. Bailey
“Whoever makes you feel
that deeply and that intensely,
deserves to know how they’ve
impacted you.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
tags: directly, express, expression, feelings, love, tell
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Jean Rhys
“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
tags: reality, secret, tell, true, truth, wide-sargasso-sea
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Alison G. Bailey
“If you love
someone, tell them.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
tags: express, feeling, love, tell
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Lionel Shriver
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
tags: happiness, story, tell
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Mitch Albom
“Never tell a child that something it’s too hard”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
tags: adulthood, advice-for-women, child, children, hard, influence, never, tell, too-hard
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Markus Zusak
“Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
tags: pages, tell, time
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“How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?”
― The White Stripes
tags: how, love, men, microphone, most, tell
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Santosh Kalwar
“People were always most interested in things that didn't have anything useful to tell them. I had no idea why.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Society In Opposition To Everything
tags: artist, artwork, interests, people, satire, tell, useful
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“No one from the outside can tell or show you what is in your heart.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew
tags: heart, inner, inspirational, love, outside, philosophy, show, tell
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Ljupka Cvetanova
“I imagine what it was like in the time of Hippocrates.
- Good morning, doctor. I have a headache. Tell me an aphorism.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land
tags: aphorism, beginning, doctor, good, headache, hippocrates, medicine, morning, red, tell
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Steven Magee
“My girlfriend would tell me she was picking people up at the airport. I later discovered it was an excuse to meet up with her secret lover!”
― Steven Magee
tags: airport, discovered, excuse, girlfriend, lover, meet, people, picking, secret, tell
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Steven Magee
“My girlfriend would tell me she was going to her parents for dinner and I should make my own. I later discovered it was an excuse to meet up with her secret lover!”
― Steven Magee
tags: cheating, dinner, discovered, excuse, girlfriend, lover, meet, parents, secret, tell
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Steven Magee
“My girlfriend would tell me she was flying out of town to a work conference with her coworkers. She did go to the conference, but it later emerged it was an excuse to meet up with her secret lover!”
― Steven Magee
tags: conference, coworkers, emerged, flying, girlfriend, lover, secret, tell, town, work
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Steven Magee
“Serial killers do not tell their partner what they do when away from the home.”
― Steven Magee
tags: away, criminal, dexter, home, killers, mind, partner, police, serial, tell
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Steven Magee
“Sex addicts do not tell their partner what they actually do when away from the home.”
― Steven Magee
tags: actually, addicts, affairs, away, cheaters, home, partner, sex, tell, what
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Steven Magee
“The military use radio jammers on their vehicles to prevent remote detonations. They do not tell the troops they are bad for their health.”
― Steven Magee
tags: detonations, health, jammers, military, prevent, radio, remote, tell, troops, vehicles
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Tell yourself this, every day, I am nothing in front of this universe.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma
tags: brahma, every-day, nothing, nothingness, smiling, smiling-brahma, tell, universe, vikrmn, yourself
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Steven Magee
“Hashtags enable you to teach the internet what to tell people.”
― Steven Magee
tags: enable, group, hashtag, hashtags, internet, people, search, teach, tell, what
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Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“If you tell the truth only to yourself, there is something to listen to you, which is your conscience.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih
tags: concience, listen, something, tell, truth
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Steven Magee
“I feel my job is to tell them once it may be toxic and to shut up. It is their choice about what to do with the information from that point.”
― Steven Magee
tags: choice, feel, information, job, kids, once, point, shut-up, tell, toxic
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Sino Melo
“Please tell me whenever you dream of me, I am really curious about it.”
― Sino Melo
tags: curious, dream, please, tell
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Sino Melo
“If you have a lot to tell, you have a lot (to write and/or) to share.”
― Sino Melo
tags: lot, share, tell, write
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Sino Melo
“I don't know what I don't know, but tell me something I don't know.”
― Sino Melo
tags: know, something, tell
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