“People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story.”
― Jennifer Brown, quote from Thousand Words
“you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.”
― Jennifer Brown, quote from Thousand Words
“A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.”
― Jennifer Brown, quote from Thousand Words
“At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.”
― Jennifer Brown, quote from Thousand Words
“That you love him so much the idea of losing him hurts just as immediately and fully as if you'd already lost him?”
― Jennifer Brown, quote from Thousand Words
“Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from Lord of Chaos
“She was the most confusing person he had ever met”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from The Book of Three
“You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
― Steven Pressfield, quote from Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
“منطقهای که در آن بردگی اخلاقی و جسمی زنان به حد افراط کشیده شده است، چون اینها تحت ستم مالک، پدر، برادر و شوهر هستند. اینطرفها مالک برای زیردستانش همسر انتخاب میکند و زن جماعت درست توی خیابان زیر شلاق پدران حیوانصفت و شوهران مستشان میافتند و مردمی هم که شاهد این صحنهها هستند در کمال بیاعتنایی تماشا میکنند. این خوراکی برای تفکر است! ما باید کاری کنیم که انقلاب نه تنها به استثمار انسان از انسان که به استثمار زن بهدست مرد هم پایان بدهد و در کنار برابری طبقات، برابری جنسی را هم برقرار کند.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The War of the End of the World
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from A Wind in the Door
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.