Latest Quotes

“I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accom…”

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window — maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

— Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

“Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can m…”

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“To the left, to the left, everything you own in a box to the left”

— Beyoncé, Beyoncé - Irreplaceable

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

— John Green, Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska

“On December 31st of 1958 Lila had her first episode of dissolving margins. The term isn’t mine, she always used it. She said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared. That night, on the terrace where we were celebrating the arrival of 1959, when she w…”

— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes, but in the organization of them. Not in symbiosis, but in synthesis.”

— Edwin Grant Conklin, Heredity and environment in the development of men

“Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with the heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more…”

— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)

“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.”

— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid

“Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination.”

— Christina Scalise, Interior Design Illustrated: Marker and Watercolor Techniques (International Critical Commentary)

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

“It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.”

— Donna Otto, Finding Your Purpose as a Mom: How to Build Your Home on Holy Ground

“The Balinese don't wait and see 'how things go.' That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel. Young. Goofy. Infinite.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.”

— Friedrich Hayek, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle

“There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.”

— Kat Lahr, Anatomy Of Illumination