Quotables @ Bookshelf

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“My father always says, to know a man, you must visit his library, for the contours of his mind have been shaped by the words on his bookshelf”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

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“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

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“Some days are just hard and you want to go asleep and wake up a week from now knowing the problem is gone. Everyone feels like that once in a while.Life can be overwhelming”

BELLE AURORA, FRIEND-ZONED

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“Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”

NICHOLAS SPARKS, THE BEST OF ME

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“If you keep looking, you will find it. It has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with courage. Be brave.”

JAMIE CHRISTIAN DESPLACES, DUTCH

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“Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents”

YASUTAKA TSUTSUI, PAPRIKA: A NOVEL

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“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

CHRISTOPHER BARZAK, ONE FOR SORROW

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS

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“I promise to never love anyone with all my heart again, because the pain that comes with a broken heart is nothing compared to the pain of a shattered one.”

JAYME ARDENTE-SILLIMAN, WRITTEN IN THE STARS

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“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”

JAY ASHER, THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

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“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”

JENNY HAN, TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE

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“There’s a danger in being drawn to something that’s not real, in giving yourself to something you can never be a part of, instead of making your life where you are. But those infinite worlds, with their infinite potential, beckoned irresistibly.”

ERICA O'ROURKE, DISSONANCE

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“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”

ISAAC ASIMOV, ROBOTS AND EMPIRE

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“People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.”

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFRóN, MARINA

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“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.”

GLENDA MILLARD, A SMALL KISS IN THE DARK

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“Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”

JUSTINA CHEN, NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL

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    "Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

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The origin of the phrase: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned


What's the meaning of the phrase 'Hell has no fury like a woman scorned'?

'Hell has no fury like a woman scorned' conveys the idea that a scorned woman (that is, one who has been betrayed) is more furious than anything that hell can devise.

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold
What's the meaning of the phrase 'All that glitters is not gold'?
The proverbial saying 'All that glitters is not gold' means that not everything that is shiny and superficially attractive is valuable.

What's the origin of the phrase 'All that glitters is not gold'?

The original form of this phrase was 'all that glisters is not gold'. The 'glitters' version long ago superseded the original and is now almost universally used.

Shakespeare is the best-known writer to have expressed the idea that shiny things aren't necessarily precious things. The original editions of The Merchant of Venice, 1596, have the line as 'all that glisters is not gold'. 'Glister' is usually replaced by 'glitter' in modern renditions of the play: