“Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.”
― Brian Farrey, quote from The Vengekeep Prophecies
“(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."
(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that," Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.”
― Brian Farrey, quote from The Vengekeep Prophecies
“Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.”
― Brian Farrey, quote from The Vengekeep Prophecies
“Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.”
― Brian Farrey, quote from The Vengekeep Prophecies
“You can only fail to pick the Castellan's pocket once”
― Brian Farrey, quote from The Vengekeep Prophecies
“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Summoning
“America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.”
― Max Brooks, quote from World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Crown of Midnight
“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Cannery Row
“It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul.
"The strangest," he agreed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Host
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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