Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

  2. Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

  3. “A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them."

  4. True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.

  5. It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

  6. Time is a face on the water.

  7. No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

  8. Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

  9. If you love me, then love me.

  10. Do people in your world always want only one story flavor at a time? Only one taste in their mouths?

  11. "So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our mind. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."

  12. Keep my love safe; take my love safe to where he goes, give him joy in who he sees, and make him a cause of joy in those who see him.