“If you don’t mourn a dead cat properly, you’ll never get over it.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“As I explained earlier, most animals are multilingual when it comes to listening, but reading is beyond us. Reading and writing seem to belong to a special linguistic system that only humans possess.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“Among cats, when a female chooses a mate, it’s a very clear-cut thing. Not just among cats, but with all animals, the female’s judgement about love is absolute.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“A stray cat’s skill lies in building up a complex web of connections in order to survive on the streets.”
― quote from The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Kiss of Deception
“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, quote from The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Tortilla Flat
“I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.”
― Maria V. Snyder, quote from Magic Study
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.