“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“… I just figured it would be easier to do the math problem with the numbers in the correct colors.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“orange trail leading down to the kitchen and”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“If I could paint, I would do it myself.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“When I was little, I used to run out into the rain and let the water run all over me. Then one day I saw lightning split a tree nearly in half. That pretty much took the joy out of prancing around in thunderstorms.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“I open my eyes and stare at the page. I see the black letters. But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. I can’t say I’m surprised.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“My mission was to multiply twenty-four times nine.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from A Mango-Shaped Space
“That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend. ”
― quote from The Love Dare
“In meeting Betty Jo he had learned that there was a large substratum of society that was totally unaffected by this middle-class prototype, that a huge and indifferent mass of persons had virtually no ambitions and no values whatever.”
― Walter Tevis, quote from The Man Who Fell to Earth
“Los economistas ya han tenido bastantes dificultades para explicar el pasado, así que no hablemos de predecir el futuro.”
― Steven D. Levitt, quote from SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“Todo el mundo tiene un pasado. Cosas que te apuñalan justo entre los ojos. Viejos rencores. Antiguas vergüenzas. Remordimientos que te roban el sueño y te mantienen despierto hasta que temes por tu propia cordura. Traiciones que hacen que tu alma grite tan fuerte que te preguntas porque nadie más lo oye. Al final, estamos absolutamente solos en ese infierno privado. Pero la vida no se trata de aprender a perdonar a los que te han herido u olvidar tu pasado. Trata sobre perdonarte a ti mismo por ser humano y cometer errores. Sí, las personas nos decepcionan todo el tiempo. Pero las lecciones más duras vienen cuando nos decepcionamos a nosotros mismo.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Time Untime
“Claire is smarter than I am. I’m not saying that out of some half-baked feminist sentiment or in order to endear women to me. You’ll never hear me claim that ‘women in general’ are smarter than men. Or more sensitive, more intuitive, or that they are more ‘in touch with life’, or any of the other horseshit that, when all is said and done, so-called ‘sensitive’ men try to peddle more often than women themselves.”
― Herman Koch, quote from The Dinner
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.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.