“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
“because thinking it into words even only to himself was like the struck match which doesn’t dispel the dark but only exposes its terror—one”
― William Faulkner, quote from Intruder in the Dust
“Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.”
― Franny Billingsley, quote from Chime
“It was like being in an exciting movie, except I didn't know whether it was a romance or a comedy.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
“And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?”
― Dylan Thomas, quote from A Child's Christmas in Wales
“Sinjin "Either you have a question about your loud boyfriend - yeah, I fucking heard everything this morning, and I honestly feel well acquainted with your pussy ...”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
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.
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