“Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.”
“Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possesion of a pashon for fashon, must be in want of an audiance!”
“Math is “maths,” an elevator is a “lift,” a truck is a “lorry,” a flashlight is a “torch,” and “crisps” are what they call potato chips, while “chips” over here means French fries. Just as riding the double-decker buses thrills me, I get a thrill out of hearing people talk.”
“Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.”
“Football means soccer, squash is soda, bonkers is nuts—I’m going to need an interpreter or something.”
“He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.”
“You look at today, chil'. You say, 'Thank you, Lawd, for everythin' you gives me today.' Then you worries about the next day when the next day come.”
“This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.”
“When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.”
“Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.”
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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