“I think I’m the most hurt by the fact that I’m not like him. I would’ve chosen him over everything else. The whole world could’ve burned down and I would’ve pulled him from the wreckage of it.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You’re so adorable sometimes. I almost don’t regret not killing you.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“She’s a loner. She pays her own way. She is someone who doesn’t know her place, or if she does, she doesn’t abide by the rules. She’ll see right through your lies. She’ll steal your heart without even trying. She’ll blink at you with a million whispers in the night while she holds your hand as if she’s the only one who fits it right. You’ll want to carry her bones inside your bones.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You can’t be serious!” “I’m so serious.” “He’s a psychopath.” “He’s my psychopath.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“Even swimming in sorrow, he won’t let me drown.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You’ve changed me. I want to be the favorite taste that touches your lips.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“it eat my brain?” I ask. He looks confused. “No.” “Mind control?” I ask. “I wish.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“He becomes a thief, wiping away my tears with the back of his hand, trying to steal my sorrow from me.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“I’m not in love with him. I would never call it that. It’s more of a growing fascination with him. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known, but he’s maladjusted and broken—unpredictable and frightening.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“I’m just a collection of sad stories, Kyon.” “I”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“Then you might have to kill everyone.” “So be it.” “Why are you so crazy?” I ask as I gently rest my forehead against his chest.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“No one has ever worn my clothes before.” “No one would dare,” I murmur. “You’re a scary beast.” “You dared.” “I did, but I have a problem with authority.” He”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, “You know these aren’t very good for Pretty Town.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You. Must. Chill. Do you know what that means?” He looks at me in exasperation. “I never know what you’re trying to say. I have no idea what being cold brings to this situation.” For”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
Amy A. Bartol
Born place: in The United States
Born date November 16, 2018
See more on GoodReads
“For the middle majority of us all, knowledge of Negroes firsthand is probably limited—limited to the colored cleaning woman, who comes twice a week, limited to the colored baseball player who saves or loses a home game, limited to the garage mechanic, or dime-store clerk, or blues singer seen and heard on a Saturday night. To this white majority, the black man is as unknown as once was the heart of the Dark Continent of Africa.”
― Irving Wallace, quote from The Man
“A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.”
― Howard Mittelmark, quote from How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
“But it is the mark of a leader, to hold all possibilities, even the unpleasant—even the unthinkable.”
― Christie Golden, quote from The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm
“WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.1 These are Pascal’s words, and it is easy to see how perceptive he was about the virtual nonexistence of the present, consumed as we are by using the past to plan what-comes-next, a moment away or in the distant future. That”
― António R. Damásio, quote from Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“Between Two Ages laid out Brzezinski’s vision of what U.S. society would be like. The U.S. he wrote “is now in an information revolution based on amusement focus, spectator spectacles (saturation coverage by television of sporting events), which provide an opiate for an increasingly purposeless mass.”
― quote from Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
Reckoning
The Broken God
By Nightfall
Whip Smart: A Memoir
A Wolf at the TableBookQuoters 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.
