“It’s a mother’s greatest joy and greatest burden, having children to worry about. You can’t have one without the other.”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
“She waited until both girls nod.”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
“you can’t have love and not at some time hurt. You can’t be happy and not have some sadness. It is called life, you have to live it. The good and the bad Grim.” “I”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
M.K. Eidem
See more on GoodReads
“And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from Sea Glass
“Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand.
Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“حين يصل الكاتب عادة إلى الصفحة الأخيرة، تكون أغلى أمنية لديه أن يقرأ الناس كتابه بعد مائة أو مائتي عام. وبالطبع، لا يمكن التكهن بذلك، فهناك كتب أراد لها مؤلفوها الخلود ثم انطفأت غداة صدورها، في حين أن كتاباً قد يبقى، وكنا نخاله مجرد ترفيه لتلامذة المدراس. غير أن الأمل لا يفارقنا. أما هذا الكتاب الذي ليس ترفيهاً ولا عملاً أدبياً، فسوف أتمنى بشأنه عكس ذلك، أن يكتشفه حفيدي يوماً، وقد أصبح راشداً، مصادفةً في مكتبة العائلة، فيتصفحه ويقرأ بعض صفحاته، ثم يعيده فوراً إلى الرف المغطى بالغبار حيث تناوله، مستخفاً ومندهشاً للحاجة إلى قول هذه الأمور في الزمن الذي عاش فيه جده..”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
Shade
Natural Law
Take This Regret
Frigid
Angelmaker
The Science of Getti...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.
