“It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“You just don’t know what’s really going on in a marriage unless it’s yours.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“helped along by doing yoga together after a huge workout”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“But here’s the thing about family, Ryan…blood doesn’t mean shit. You just need to surround yourself with people who do love you, and they become your family.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Tragedies come in the hungry hours.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from The Voyage Out
“It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”
― Aimee Bender, quote from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“He didn't finish most of the stories he started anymore, couldn't bear to. He felt weak at the thought of reading another story about vampires having sex with other vampires. He tried to struggle through Lovecraft pastiches, but at the first painfully serious reference to the Elder Gods, he felt some important part of him going numb inside, the way a foot or a hand will go to sleep when the circulation is cut off. He feared the part of him being numbed was his soul.”
― Joe Hill, quote from 20th Century Ghosts
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.