“Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“What is far is very close, and what is close is very far”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“You have to be lost to find the key”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
“Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Timequake
“I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies. It looked like he wasn't home.”
― Max Frei, quote from The Stranger
“I don't know what good I could do."
"None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.”
― David Levithan, quote from Wide Awake
“Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.”
― Elizabeth Haydon, quote from Rhapsody: Child of Blood
“We'd walk home together in the foggy summer night and I'd tell her about sex; the good stuff, like how it could be warm and exciting--it took you away--and the not-so-good things, like how once you showed someone that part of yourself, you had to trust them one thousand percent and anything could happen. Someone you thought you knew could change and suddenly not want you, suddenly decide you made a better story than a girlfriend. Or how sometimes you might think you wanted to do it and then halfway through or afterward realize no, you just wanted the company, really; you wanted someone to choose you, and the sex part itself was like a trade-off, something you felt like you had to give to get the other part. I'd tell her that and help her decide. I'd be a friend.”
― Sara Zarr, quote from Story of a Girl
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.