“Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final endgame.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“He said souls can be just as bloody and torn up as bodies can. He called it the other kind of violence.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
“Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
― Seneca, quote from Letters from a Stoic (a selection)
“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Portable Nietzsche
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my room at exactly 3:57 A.M. to tell me the story of my miraculous emergence into this world, as if it was some fairy tale. Although I supposed few fairy tales involved the words 'vaginal flowering'.”
― Molly Harper, quote from How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
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.