“Life makes so many choices for us.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Life depends on what is in your heart.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“It is easy to think you’re OK if you don’t know what you’re missing.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“she could only do what she had the knowledge and power to do at the time.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Aaman got taken for being illegal, you’ve tried to find him but haven’t had any luck, and you’re crying because you haven’t found him. That’s what it sounds like. Is that what’s going on?” “Yes.” “Are you crying over Aaman because he was a great gardener or did something happen between you guys?”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“to Sialkot. Mahmout is from the south, a world apart. Friends are irrelevant to his quest. Mahmout is grinning, as always. Mahmout slumps, yawning, onto the circular bench.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Juliet notices the insecurities rising within her – the demons of not being heard, the goblins of not being understood, the imps of not being considered important. The fight between them confuses her thinking into a shade of panic.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
Sara Alexi
Born place: in Oxford, The United Kingdom
See more on GoodReads
“...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Delusion in Death
“...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“By the way, leafing through my dictionary I am struck by the poverty of language when it comes to naming or describing badness. Evil, wickedness, mischief, these words imply an agency, the conscious or at least active doing of wrong. They do not signify the bad in its inert, neutral, self-sustaining state. Then there are the adjectives: dreadful, heinous, execrable, vile, and so on. They are not so much as descriptive as judgmental. They carry a weight of censure mingled with fear. Is this not a queer state of affairs? It makes me wonder. I ask myself if perhaps the thing itself - badness - does not exist at all, if these strangely vague and imprecise words are only a kind of ruse, a kind of elaborate cover for the fact that nothing is there. Or perhaps words are an attempt to make it be there? Or, again, perhaps there is something, but the words invented it. Such considerations make me feel dizzy, as if a hole had opened briefly in the world.”
― John Banville, quote from The Book of Evidence
“Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“When something becomes obvious to you,” he said, “you immediately think surely someone else is doing this.”
― Michael Lewis, quote from Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Disclosure
Spilling Open: The A...
Cat and Mouse
It Can't Happen Here
Crocodile TearsBookQuoters 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.
