Words worth keeping
2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
Not my daughter, you bitch!
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen."But I don't want anything else in the world.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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.