“Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.”
― Jane Smiley, quote from A Thousand Acres
“Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.”
― Sara Donati, quote from Into the Wilderness
“It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Infinity
“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from Snow
“Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.”
― Tim Winton, quote from Cloudstreet
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.