“There’s just something magical about a library. It’s like a portal to many different worlds.”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“To stories that fuck you so good you’ll need a cigarette. This is one of those stories.”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“Yes, I read. Religiously. It’s what takes me out of my life”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“It’s the year 2017. We have drones, cars that can go in water, and men who walk on the moon. Why the hell haven’t they figured out how to unsend a text message? I don’t know who “they” are, but I’m blaming it on Apple.”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“Secrets are weapons, and silence is the trigger. – V. S. H. I”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“Or maybe girls are supposed to find their soul mates in their friends, and guys are just there for the D. After”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“I am neither dead, nor alive, and I’m not something little Madison can hide. But you will be dead by the time this is done. The timer starts now. The games have just begun.”
― Amo Jones, quote from The Silver Swan
“I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Capricorn
“I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.”
― Zoë Heller, quote from What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
“La educación no termina nunca, Watson. Es una serie de lecciones, de las cuales las más instructivas son las últimas.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from Breathing Underwater
“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Edible Woman
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.