Book Quote Quotes

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Question. It’s enjoyable to be the one with all the secrets, but in her honest mind – the hidden part that’s always sleeping – the secrets he keeps about when and if give her a feeling inside she’s never really understood completely – a sensation she had as a child when she got to the end of a fairytale where never-ending love and happiness were all but expected and wondered whether there might be…. one last page.

~ Carla H. Krueger

He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now.Don't be scared.That doesn't help.

~ Sandy Hall

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

~ Roman Payne

She was magic, a direct light—the kind that seeps through in places that didn’t exist inside him anymore. The light he thought he lost forever, but Nick realized we don’t lose the light, we absorb it, and with Olivia he wanted to absorb every small speck of it.

~ Maria La Serra

Amari swung around in her seat to look back and there was indeed a small girl sitting on the boundary wall. She didn’t seem to be looking at the car that had just passed but up ahead. Amari turned around to see what she was looking at and she saw it, up ahead, the farm house that she could only assume was their new home.

~ Sian B. Claven

Oh so we are neighbours?” She tried to smile sweetly, so Maggie felt like she could talk more. Maggie shrugged again, “Not for long.” Amari got goosebumps and asked, “Oh why? Where are you guys moving too?” Maggie looked at her again and said stoically, “No where.

~ Sian B. Claven

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

~ Elizabeth Scott

This is a cemetery of memories and I'm grave robbing.

~ Jocelyn White

It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we found each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hopethat things will go on and get betterand that things and people and views are still out there, yet to be found.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

~ Carla H. Krueger

The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.

~ Jenim Dibie

He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.

~ Jocelyn White

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book has its ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

~ Laney Smith

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

~ Aman Jassal

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

~ Aman Jassal

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

~ Aman Jassal

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

~ Aman Jassal

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

~ Aman Jassal

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

~ Rick Yancey

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

~ Aman Jassal

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

~ Aman Jassal

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great, read great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.

~ Sandy Hall

...I suppose clichés wouldn't be clichés if they weren't based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.

~ Lucy Ivison

You're only as old as you feel.

~ Lucy Ivison

Only a foolish soul would love the stars. As beautiful as they are, they will burn you. Regardless of your best intentions.

~ Kendal Rob

The engorged moon hung full and low in the sky like a yellow skull. Misshapen clouds stretched across the floating orb with elongated hands and bony fingers grasping. As they neared the docks, the gas lamps grew fewer and the streets gloomier. The cobblestones blackened as they passed the deserted brickfields. Bottle-shaped kilns spat their outrage with orange tongues of fire into the cooling air. Mangy dogs snarled in hunger and wandering sea-gulls screamed their displeasure at the hansom’s passage.

~ Brian S. Ference