Anna > Anna's Quotes

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”
― Barney Stinson

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
― Andre Maurois

“Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.”
― Andre Maurois, Climats

“The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?”
― Andre Maurois

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“W wieku dwudziestu lat jesteśmy tym, co uczyniło z nas wykształcenie, ale już około czterdziestu- tym, co powstało w wyniku własnych wyborów, jeżeli takich dokonaliśmy.
Młody człowiek staje się takim dorosłym, jakiego chciało jego dzieciństwo. Zaś człowiek dojrzały jest dzieckiem młodego człowieka.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Trucicielka

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin