“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.
EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.”
― Carol Shields, quote from The Stone Diaries
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.”
― Rachel Cohn, quote from Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from To a God Unknown
“I feel a sudden, intense desire to throw a temper tantrum,”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Blinding Knife
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.
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