“...a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Deceiver
“position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Deceiver
“«Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Deceiver
“Los proyectos mejor urdidos por ratones y por hombres, como el poeta escocés podría haber dicho, terminan a veces pareciéndose a la merienda de un perro chiflado. El”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Deceiver
“There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from Under Heaven
“You’d think they’d been raised in a palace for all the manners they have.” “If they’re princes, they probably have been raised in palaces,” Mendanbar said. “Princes usually are.” “Well, no wonder none of them have any manners, then.” The squirrel sniffed. “They ought to be sent to school in a forest, where people are polite. You don’t see any of my children behaving like that, no, sir. Please and thank you and yes, sir and no, ma’am—that’s how I brought them up, all twenty-three of them, and what’s good enough for squirrels is good enough for princes, I say.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, quote from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
“hubiera podido ser más perfecta. Se acercó sigilosamente a Sed, le echó los brazos al cuello, y le besó la oreja. —Eh, cariño, ¿a que no lo adivinas? —¿El qué? —preguntó él distraídamente. Ella atisbó alrededor del hombro de Sed para descubrir que tenía el ceño fruncido mientras contemplaba un montón de facturas. —¡He entrado! La confusión hizo que el fruncimiento de ceño de Sed se volviera un poco”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Rock Hard
“I didn’t need protecting and men seemed to sense that. It bothered a lot of them.”
― Faith Hunter, quote from Skinwalker
“I was raised as a churchgoer but I wasn't a practising Christian. I wasn't an agnostic or atheist either. My view is that we should all take a bit from every religion and philosophy. I'm not a Buddhist but I like Buddhist philosophies, in particular. They give you a very good structure that you can build your life around. For instance, I definitely believe in karma, the idea that what goes around, comes around. I wondered whether Bob was my reward for having done something good, somewhere in my troubled life. - Chapter 21”
― James Bowen, quote from A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
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.