Said Best...

The best literary and historical quotes on Tumblr.

[litsnaps]

[booksquoteslife]

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

[quotespile]

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest… The more you love people the more they’ll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

Saul Bellow, “The Adventures of Augie March"

[the-book-diaries]

I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be.

Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie”

[poemswords]

[music-and-quotes]

“What am I suppose to do, when the best part of me was always you?” - The Script

[saidbest]

~ The Script

[books-n-quotes]

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen, “Sense And Sensibility"

[thegoodvybe]

[saidbest]

...when the road decides.

~Ben Maxfield

[books-n-quotes]

Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time…

Kazuo Ishiguro, “Never Let Me Go”

[firstactproblems]

There’s a piece of Maria in every song that I sing…

Counting Crows, Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby

[saidbest]

~Counting Crows, “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby”

[love-diaries]

Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but even worse to regret.

Anonymous

[thegoodvybe]

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

Catherynne M. Valente

[thegoodvybe]

We worry too much about what’s wrong with us, and focus too little on what’s right.

William Chapman

[the-book-diaries]

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

[thelovejournals]

I’d like to destroy you a few times in bed.

Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” 

[quotesofallkinds]

“Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln

[quotemadness]

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

Peter Cameron