Quotes from Touching Spirit Bear

289 pages

Rating: (20.8K votes)


“He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."

Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“all my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will-”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear



“Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.” He”
― quote from Touching Spirit Bear


Popular quotes

“Love is gentle and love is kind, The sweetest flower when first it’s new, But love grows old, And waxes cold, And fades away, like the morning dew   Pretty”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from Bloody Jack


“In this country, in one way or another, everyone had bean, was, or would be part of the regime. "The worst thing that can happen to a Dominican is to be intelligent or competent," he had once heard Agustín Cabral say ...and the words had been etched in his mind: "Because sooner or later Trujillo will call upon him to serve the regime, or his person, and when he calls, one is not permitted to say no." [Agustín Cabral] was proof of this truth....As Estrella Sadhalá always said, the Goat had taken from people the sacred attribute given to them by God: their free will.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Feast of the Goat


“Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care. ”
― Darren Shan, quote from Lord Loss


“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary


“We’re set in motion and then we spend our lives maintaining that motion, but to what end? For what purpose?”
― Carrie Ryan, quote from The Dead-Tossed Waves


Interesting books

Maisie Dobbs
(59K)
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
The Memory of Running
(10.1K)
The Memory of Runnin...
by Ron McLarty
The Wish List
(14.6K)
The Wish List
by Eoin Colfer
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
(26.5K)
for colored girls wh...
by Ntozake Shange
Mystic City
(10.1K)
Mystic City
by Theo Lawrence
The Running Dream
(19.7K)
The Running Dream
by Wendelin Van Draanen

About BookQuoters

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.