Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.

—Min Jin Lee in Pachinko

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so…simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.

—Debbie Macomber in 5-B Poppy Lane

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. She missed being little, when they were the all-knowing gods of her world.

—Robin Benway in Far from the Tree

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

—Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I'm Home

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Sometimes you don't know what you're missing until you find it.

—Vi Keeland in Bossman

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

—Isabel Allende in The House of the Spirits

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.

—Jean Brashear in The Goddess of Fried Okra

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

When a man loves you, he is going to want to see you. You will not have to remind him to call, plan lunch or dinner dates because he'll be one step ahead of the game.

—Leslie Braswell in Get the Guy

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

—Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours.

—Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies

More about this quote

Tags:
love relationship trust care
Permalink for this quote

I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.

—Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels

More about this quote

Tags:
love profundity comparison
Permalink for this quote

How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

—Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids?

More about this quote

Tags:
accomplishment feminism women parenting motherhood sexism
Permalink for this quote