Iris > Iris's Quotes

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“El miedo en la gente, hábilmente gestionado, puede darte el poder absoluto. La gente con miedo se deja conducir dócilmente.”
― Santiago Posteguillo, Africanus: El hijo del cónsul