“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“Girls were like that, though- they had to know things. They had to plan.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes!
Cue straitjacket.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“Bundle!" Chuck shouted agin, nonsensically, as he hurled himself on top of them. It was as if he were re-creating a scene from some dumb college frat movie he'd loved but no one else had ever seen.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“For nobody else, gave me a thrill—with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. —As sung by Frank Sinatra”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from It Had to Be You
“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”
― quote from The Price of Salt
“Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
― Becky Chambers, quote from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“I've taken the liberty of giving us a full moon. I've arranged for all stoplights to stay green. I've made some phone calls to make sure you keep smiling. I've reserved the space underneath our feet. I've gone all out for you, so why don't you go with me?”
― quote from Torture the Artist. Joey Goebel
“Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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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