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. People always hurt us with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone you like is to put all your trust in him.”

  2. There’s no animal in the world with a deeper sense of parody than a horse. A cat can make you look clumsy and a dog can make you look stupid, but only a horse can make you look both at the same time. And then, with nothing more than the flick of a tail or a casual stomp on your foot, it lets you know that it did in on purpose.

  3. Discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair. - Lin

  4. Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry they are not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.

  5. I'd lost my closest friends in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You are here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and reasons for loving them.

  6. Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win

  7. We are made out of stars, you and I.

  8. It’s a fact of life on run that you often love more people than you trust. For people in the safe world, of course, exactly the opposite is true. - Lin

  9. Being in love we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said”

  10. "Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things."

  11. The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

  12. The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.