Quotes

Words worth keeping

536 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

— Rick Riordan
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

— Marlene Dietrich
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

— Veronica Roth
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It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

— Marilyn Monroe
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

— John Green
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

— Suzanne Collins
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

— John Green
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

— John Green
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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

— J.K. Rowling
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If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

— H.N. Turteltaub
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We came to see Jace. Is he alright?""I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

— Cassandra Clare
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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

— Stephen Chbosky
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Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

— Suzanne Collins
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Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered."Selling them on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

— Cassandra Clare
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World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.