Quotes

Bookworm’s corner of the internet.

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Farouk: I need a drink, an alcoholic drink.

Ajayi: We probably shouldn’t drink alcohol.

Farouk: I need a croissant then.

- Heartstoppers, Season 2, Episode 4: Challenge

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I'm trying to find an angle where I don't have to tell him, but I still get to have him. And especially a solution where I don't have to take any responsibility for it all going wrong if he rejects me."

- Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti, Zodiac Academy 7: Heartless Sky

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But, alas! husbands, as well as their helpmates, are often only overgrown children; nay, thanks to early debauchery, scarcely men in their outward form—and if the blind lead the blind, one need not come from heaven to tell us the consequence.

- Mary Wollstonecraft, The Vindication of the Rights of Women

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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Men don’t have rights.”

- Violet Crawley played by Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)

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Women raise their voices because they aren’t being heard; men raise their voices because they aren’t being obeyed.

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Just like no means no, it’s always the man’s fault. Always. Now, you remember that.

- Mariana Adair, Faux Beau

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“This is heavy. What have you got in here?”

“My emotional support book. I mean, I know I probably won’t have time to read, but I like to have it with me just in case.”

- Elizabeth Helen, Woven by Gold

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Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn’t bear fruit like you’d hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liars.

- Elise Kova, Water’s Wrath

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Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn’t mean you have to, especially when they won’t even appreciate you for doing it.

- Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

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I want to find common ground with you but I can’t, because you are wrong.

- John Green, TikTok

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Trust me. I’m doing her a solid. In my romance novels, this always works. Everything you read in books is at least half-true.

- Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

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If you find a girl who reads, keep her close.

When you find her up at 2AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her.

You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you.

She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it.

You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

- Robert Pattinson

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“Olive,” Dr Aslan interrupted her with a stern tone. “What do I always tell you?”

“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

- Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

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Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

- Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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He’s starting to see some flaws in his logic. Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves they’re straight.

- Casey McQuinston, Red, White and Royal Blue

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“You’re not average looking!” May said. “Because I look just like you and I’m pretty!”

- Kiera Cass, The Selection