“But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes life is just messy no matter what you do," she [Emma] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Believe in yourself. That's real magic.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes things weren’t all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. “I’m”
― quote from Reawakened
“Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
― James Gleick, quote from Chaos: Making a New Science
“You're the modern versions of Beowulf, of St. George, of Odysseus. You're Van Helsing with firepower. You're Jack and the Beanstalk with automatic weapons. We're walking in the valley of the shadow of death, but we shall fear no evil! Because evil is about to get a stake put through its black heart because we are the baddest mother-fuckers to ever set foot in the valley!”
― Larry Correia, quote from Monster Hunter International
“I certainly have never had to pretend to be weak. But your mother is right. There's a benefit to being underestimated.”
― Amy Tintera, quote from Ruined
“I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Way We Live Now
“The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.”
― Christopher Hitchens, quote from The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
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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