Malou > Malou's Quotes

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Ik heb altijd een sterk verlangen gehad om als mens waardig, prachtig te worden; als dat lukt, heb je ook de mogelijkheden ontwikkeld om mensen met je begrip en je liefde, met heel je levensallure te vangen als de Rattenvanger van Hamelen de ratten - en, dacht ik (denk ik nog) dan krijg je de liefde.”
― Anna Blaman

“Why is the measure of love loss?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“So what is truth, then ?’
‘Truth is a successful delusion.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”
― Suzanne Collins

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.”
― Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You

“We will never be together. Sweetheart. I am too brittle, hidden, and snappish, and you are too married. You are altogether too married.”
― Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You

“It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you’d fight the world. You’d let it chew you up and spit you out, and you’d lie there wondering what was wrong. Because you’d always expect the world to be something it wasn’t, something it had no wish to be. The weevil in the cotton, the worm in the beanstalk, the borer in the corn. You couldn't face them, and you couldn't fight them; because you’re too weak, and you’re too strong. And you have no place to go in the world.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“When he was much older, he was to look back upon his last two undergraduate years as if they were an unreal time that belonged to someone else, a time that passed, not in the regular flow to which he was used, but in fits and starts. One moment was juxtaposed against another, yet isolated from it, and he had the feeling that he was removed from time, watching as it passed before him like a great unevenly turned diorama.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“So we are of the world, after all; we should have known that. We did know it, I believe; but we had to withdraw a little, pretend a little, so that we could—”
― John Williams, Stoner