“Selective hearing...typical male. Maybe he was human after all...”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“completely healed. Maybe a bit of magic”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“God, wake me from this nightmare!”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“I was tested for a reason I was put on trial to see if I was worthy”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“Who cared anyway? I was going to Alaska, for heaven’s sake. I’d never heard of any hotties from Alaska. All I pictured were big, scruffy men in red flannels with plenty of facial hair.”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“earth-toned slate, and the walls were painted in a golden-brown color. Everything looked luxurious. My mother would have died if she saw this place. It looked like a palace. We walked through the hallway into a large open room, which had floors”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“No pansying out. Fight till the death, and definitely…no crying. If I should get caught and tortured… then everything I just said goes out the door.”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“he's the yin to my yang" -Emma Wise”
― Cameo Renae, quote from Hidden Wings
“أليس من العار أن تترك مقدرات أمّة تحت رحمة مواطنين يتصرفون بهذه المقدرات بخفّة و مجون كما لو كانوا يلعبون الورق ..”
― Adolf Hitler, quote from Mein Kampf
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor, quote from Wise Blood
“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from VALIS
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
― Malcolm X, quote from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable. Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
― Paul Kalanithi, quote from When Breath Becomes Air
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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