Thomas > Thomas's Quotes

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Un bon livre, Marcus, est un livre que l’on regrette d’avoir terminé.”
― Joël Dicker, La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough”
― Irwin Shaw

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead ”
― Mathias Malzieu, La Mécanique du cœur

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

“No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History