Category: Quotes

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. The Grapes of Wrath 3210 And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The Grapes of Wrath 1492 it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.…

She had resolved to never take another step backward. Kate Chopin The Awakening 3 I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein 3 You see we do, yet see you but our…

Normalmente todos empezamos por una ligera preferencia, y eso sí puede ser simplemente porque sí, sin motivo; pero hay muy pocos que tengan tanto corazón como para enamorarse sin haber sidoestimulados”. (Charlotte a Elizabeth) Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 You reckon he’s crazy? Miss Maudie shook her head. If he’s not he should be…

house with him, and I think him very disagreeable. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 We cannot all be masters, nor all mastersCannot be truly follow’d. William Shakespeare Othello 0 androgynous fool, William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 0 Grown-ups can never understand anything on their own, and it’s exhausting for children always to have to be…

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein 371 I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage…

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own. Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle 20 we lived in the gaps between the stories Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 20 When I get out of here, if…

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. The Iliad 722 Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. The Iliad 545 Any moment might be our last.…

Atticus Finch’s a deep reader, a mighty deep reader. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 0 My mind is a blank. At this point my feelings are more important than anything else. Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 0   Least total darkness should by Night regaine   Her old possession, and extinguish life   In Nature and all…

Jane will be quite an old main soon,I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty! Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 E para ganhar meu amor, meus irmãos devem…