Given Quotes
7676 quotes by 4565 authors
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
— Khaled Hosseini
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He…
— Alan Watts
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Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you…
— Cassandra Clare
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I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you…
— Cassandra Clare
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No," said Simon. "I know we're not much compared to you, but we don't kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn't…
— Cassandra Clare
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But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my…
— Gail Carson Levine
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I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words…
— David Levithan
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We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it…
— Karen White
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You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each…
— Abbi Glines
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Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and…
— Abbi Glines
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I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of…
— Kiera Cass
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A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things…
— Neil Gaiman
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The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given…
— Knut Hamsun
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have…
— Helen Keller
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Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all…
— Elif Safak
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And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of…
— Renata Adler
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