Book Quotes

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

~ Stephen Chbosky

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

~ Cecelia Ahern

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

~ James Dashner

Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!

~ John Green

I beg your pardon?” Catherine interrupted. “Are you implying that women have poor judgment?”“In these matters, yes.” Leo gestured to Christopher. “Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”“I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?”“In this family,” Cam interrupted, “there is no requirement of a university degree to prove one’s intelligence. Lord Ramsay is a perfect example of how one has nothing to do with the other.

~ Lisa Kleypas

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

~ Richelle Mead

-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I not surprised?

~ Christine Feehan

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.

~ Laurie Faria Stolarz

I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

~ Molly Harper

Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear

~ Rainbow Rowell

I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

~ Markus Zusak

In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

~ Morgan Matson

Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

~ Jaclyn Dolamore

I’m so sorry. I don’t think the etiquette manuals cover this sort of situation.” He leaned in close, his lips all but grazing her neck, and inhaled. “Mmm. You smell good, too.”She nearly choked. Took a step backwards, until her back met cold stone. “Th-thank you.”“That’s better. May I kiss you?” His finger dipped into her shirt collar, stroking the tender nape of her neck.“I d-don’t th-think that’s a good idea.”“Why not? We’re alone.” His hands were at her waist.Her lungs felt tight and much too small. “Wh-what if somebody comes in?”He considered for a moment. “Well, I suppose they’ll think I fancy grubby little boys.

~ Y.s. Lee

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

~ Helene Hanff

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

~ Judy Blume

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

~ Charles Dickens

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

~ Antonia Michaelis

Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

~ Kiersten White

She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity of the groin.Well, as you might imagine, Ludwig Schmeikl certainly buckled, and on the way down, he was punched in the ear. When he landed, he was set upon. When he was set upon, he was slapped and clawed and obliterated by a girl who was utterly consumed with rage. His skin was so warm and soft. Her knuckles and fingernails were so frighteningly tough, despite their smal

~ Markus Zusak

Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

~ Gustave Flaubert

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

~ Jeffrey Archer

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

~ Dai Sijie

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.

~ Rodman Philbrick

Finally! You're here!Uh....Do I know you?Well, no....But you're here, all the same...

~ Lynn Weingarten

You turned the page, i burned the book.

~ Anonymous

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

~ J.m. Coetzee

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous.Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.I said, Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.

~ Lara Avery

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

~ Julia Quinn

Every action has a reaction,everything we do or say has an effect.

~ Heidi Ayarbe

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

~ Jodi Picoult

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

~ M.r. Mathias

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

~ Julian Barnes

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475

~ Norman Cousins

Books exceed authors' lifespan.

~ Toba Beta

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

~ Dean Koontz

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

~ S.e. Hinton

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

~ Robert Harbison