Latest Quotes

“They step into each other and it’s hard to tell where one begins and one ends: hands in hair and warmth on warmth.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Barely time to register the staggering beauty, and here it is. The separation.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“The sky was all a strange boil, purplish black. Costume designers would stab their competitors to get their mitts on such a hue. Wearing it, one would walk onstage already great with authority, Lear or Othello before a syllable was spoken.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“every door leads somewhere. every chance is a blessing. every song, every movie, and every book is another world. every person you meet will change your direction. every person you love will strengthen your connection (the one to yourself). every moment you spend looking, something breathtaking will…”

— R.M. Drake, Unknown

“Self Help How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.”

— Unknown, Self Help

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days. For that, I am grateful.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.”

— Mexican Proverb, Proverb

“That was her magic, she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days.”

— Atticus, Unknown

“You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came her to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And then to rise again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story. Love, in truth, doesn’t need any other adjectives. It doesn’t require modifiers. It doesn’t require…”

— Courtney A. Walsh, Unknown

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.”

— T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding II

“Oh, for the god of love, where did time go? Clockwise swirl going nowhere.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“College is corrupt as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. They’re charging people more and more. You have this system of indulgences, you have this priestly (professorial class) that doesn't do much work. And then you basically tell people that if you get a diploma you’re saved, otherwise you go…”

— Peter Thiel, Thiel Says College as Corrupt as Church 500 Years Ago

“Nothing which is not simple and direct can survive the slow transmission from person to person.”

— Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

“Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on products without first innovating the way you build them.”

— Alex Schleifer, The Way We Build

“‘Does it hurt?’ Asked the rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt.’”

— Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?”

— Rumi, Unknown

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because dawn has come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Unknown

“"Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely."”

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

— John Green, Looking for