“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Release
“Because people who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were.”
― William Gibson, quote from The Peripheral
“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings Part One
“Purple is such a twisted, complex color—it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too—fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.”
― James Patterson, quote from Invisible
“For words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
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.