Latest Quotes

“As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.”

— Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“Three long days without a word.”

— Jennifer Ryan, At Wolf Ranch: A Montana Men Novel

“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I gaze out the window at thousands of snowflakes fluttering to the ground.”

— Calia Read, Unhinge

“All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I dreamed I awakened in a valley where no life stirred, no cry of a fox sparked up out of stillness; a night of ashes.”

— John Gardner, JASON AND MEDEIA

“A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain’s sudden sweeping.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“Do you realize that your refusal to utter the word 'love' to your lover has created a force field all its own? Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowi…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“'I want to learn about magic.' said the girl.”

— Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.”

— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”

— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

“Be soft.”

— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Water clings to my wrists. It has been my fragrance since birth.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby

“I have never been what you'd call a crying man.”

— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel

“I am running through moonlit woods, with branches ripping at my clothes and my feet catching in the snow-bowed bracken.”

— Ruth Ware, In a Dark, Dark Wood

“I inspected the knife in my hand.”

— Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel

“Everything is silent and for a second I think I must be dead.”

— Kathryn Croft, The Girl With No Past

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life