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. Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.

    p. 157

  2. We are the sum of our achievements, nothing more and nothing less. The mountain road which led us here was built by a dead people none of us would remember otherwise. What we create is the only part of us which can survive, or has the right to. Man is nothing, except to other men.

    p. 303

  3. True beauty is always oddly surprising.

    p. 353

  4. “Don’t judge yourself,” he said. “None of us are ever good at it.”

    p. 402

  5. “Uasti was a good teacher,” he said. “She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.”

    p. 402

  6. I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.

    p. 408

  7. These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

    p. 428

  8. You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

    p. 253

  9. Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.

    p. 16

  10. People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.

    p. 178

  11. Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.

    p. 7

  12. Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

    He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.