Erin > Erin's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Love can’t cure a mental illness.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Volume 3

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It was a well-known fact that there were no calories in homemade cakes.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“It’s great to be the fastest runner, but not when you’re running in the wrong direction.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“We all have a sob story, but we don't all go around killing people.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“If murder were easy, none of us would survive Christmas.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed

“I know the difference between alone and lonely,”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to,”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“God cries every time someone lies to a Canadian.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back into the dream.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Once you had a reputation for being nice you couldn't mess with it.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing. The way it just discards things without asking permission. Precious things.”
― Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In