“I want you to be more than what I was and will ever be,”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“Beauty was devised by someone very insecure to rob others of the happiness he or she couldn't feel. It was a dick move, to be honest.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“Yes, I love your eyes—they are black and deep and almond-shaped but I see the kindness in those eyes I have never seen before,”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“If you need anything, let me know,’ he said. Stop talking to me.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“I drove back home. I missed her already.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all?
In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.”
― Alison Bechdel, quote from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from My Name Is Memory
“I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Burnt Offerings
“I love you too.”
“Don’t say too, it sounds like you’re just agreeing with me.”
― Anna Todd, quote from After
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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