“más sabe el que vive sin querer saber que el que quiere saber sin vivir,”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“apático y de la timidez que era el resultado”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“Su dentadura había salido con tanta desigualdad que cada pieza estaba, como si dijéramos, donde le daba la gana. Y”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“Vivir es relacionarse, gozar y padecer, desear, aborrecer y amar. La lectura es vida artificial y prestada, el usufructo, mediante una función cerebral, de las ideas y sensaciones ajenas, la adquisición de los tesoros de la verdad humana por compra o por estafa, no por el trabajo. No”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, quote from Waterfall
“My heart would obey me, I was certain. I simply needed to be strict with it.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Edenbrooke
“Margo, zise Frock, râzând încetișor, ceea ce avem noi aici este o ghicitoare, înfășurată într-un mister din interiorul unei enigme.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“If you use too much paint, you'll not only obscure your savvy completely, but most everything else in life will become dull and uninteresting for you too. You can't get rid of part of what makes you you and be happy...So a well-scumbled savvy gives you clarity and control...You have to let your own know-how, your own unique color, shine through as a something-special others can't quite put a finger on."
—Momma”
― Ingrid Law, quote from Savvy
“A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box
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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