“I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“There comes a point in everybody’s life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“short, dark hair and strong shoulders. He had a handsome, intelligent”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“You can’t tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“As I stare into the Border collie’s eyes, I think that maybe I should go inside and call the girls. Claire, Cindy, and Jill would be here almost before I hung up the phone. They would hold me, hug me, say all the right things. You’re special, Lindsay. Everybody loves you, Lindsay.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“Hope attacking doubt. It seemed crazy.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“THE THREE OF US leaned against a stone wall in City Hall Park, picking at salad sandwiches we had bought at a nearby grocer’s. The murder club meets again.”
― James Patterson, quote from 1st to Die
“A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“¿Cuántas veces podía hacerte tanto daño una persona? [...] ¿Cuántos hombres vuelven de la guerra convertidos en mejores personas?
Ninguno, por lo visto.
¿Y cuántas mujeres aprenden de sus errores?
Esta no.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism
“They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Bone Season
“She’d spent forever trying to find him something personal, settling on a miniature Albertosaurus covered in deep violet feathers. She knew it was silly, but it reminded her of the day they met, and in the card she thanked him for showing her what dinosaurs really looked like.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Keeper of the Lost Cities
“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house to me if it did not possess a library?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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