“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Inkblot shadows of the canopy swayed and rolled on the forest floor in the cloudy light, almost as if the ground itself was moving.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Ele prosseguiu: - É possível adquirir uma vasta gama de conhecimento simplismente extraindo nossas camadas externas e examinando o que há no interior. Talvez você suponha que haja uma constante... ou um esquema, se preferir, válido para o que existe na parte interna de todo organismo vivo, independentemente de seu formato e ambiente. Mas sua teoria estaria equivocada. Não existem constantes, só variáveis, e ainda assim todos os organismos se esforçam para alcançar um objetivo comum.
- E que objetivo é esse? - perguntou Eva, olhando para a coleção de plantas e animais na mesa de Zim.
- Entender isso, Eva Nove, é entender um dos maiores mistérios do universo: por que estamos aqui?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“Cel care creează nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critică. Există o diferență prea mare între cele două activități. Una este naștere, cealaltă chirurgie.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Fear arises from uncertainty. Where there is perfect certainty, there is no fear.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“Наше общество — это общество хронически несчастных людей, мучимых одиночеством и страхами, зависимых и униженных, склонных к разрушению и испытывающих радость уже от того, что им удалось «убить время», которое они постоянно пытаются сэкономить”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
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.