“I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“poor Jan alone. When she noticed I was seriously date-delayed, Christine started trying”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them – as were the job discipline and the subtleties that children raised in the industrial world learn without thinking about them; starting work on time, working set hours, taking orders from strangers instead of their father, playing office politics.”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from The Path to Power
“That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, quote from Interred with Their Bones
“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that’s just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that’s a conspiracy.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from The Willoughbys
“...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.”
― Katherine Hannigan, quote from Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
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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