Words worth keeping
536 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in 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.