Book Quotes Quotes

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”
― Kelly Moran, The Drake House

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
- Florence Day”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us”
― Peeta Mellark

“He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Books are magical keys to open up worlds and change perspectives.”
― AAAA

“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”
― Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry

“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“There was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.”
― Carmen DeSousa, She Belongs To Me

“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“I always looked for a place where I could sit in solace and read, and you know what offered me that comfortable solitude? Books.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, In The Name Of Blasphemy

“The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.”
― Marwane Caber, THE PAST

“Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.”
― Rai Aren

“You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there is, and always will be, a negative reaction. Those who try escaping life before fate shakes their hand, will forever be stuck on earth, chained to the place they so badly wanted to leave. What a complicated misery. I guarantee you it will be torture to be invisible and ignored by those you love when you can see them - but you are already dead for them to hear you utter another word. Talk about agony, more so, than remaining on this plane and continuing your spiritual cycle as it was written to be lived.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There are many ways to take a heart.
And the King of Crows uses all methods; he shies from none.
He’s happy to have it cut out all at once as I, the huntsman, did.
He’s happy to have it taken piece by piece, year by year, like a miser hoarding coins, with punishing silences, biting glances, and love served cold.
Poisonous words do the job, too. They are as sharp as knives and leave their victims hollow.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Poisoned

“The same books that kill us keep us alive.”
― Lea