“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
“A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.”
“I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.”
“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”
“What are you offering now?” I asked suspiciously. “Just me, my friendship. Just me, and the now-and-then right to kiss you, hold your hand, touch your hair, and take you to the movies, and listen to your dreams because you listen to mine, and be silly once in a while, build a past we’ll enjoy rememberings—that’s all.”
“I took my shirt off for you?” ... “Yes. Lovely moment.”
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.