“I didn't used to be like this. I didn't believe in love and romance and swooning. My default setting was bitch”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“This is the second fucking time I've gotten shot when I was with you. I don't think we can be friends anymore.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Everything that tried to stand between us doesn't matter.
We might have broken a little.
But now we're stronger in those broken places.
And we're going to face whatever comes next together.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“This is epic monument-style shit we're in.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Even though I wasn't there, you were always with me. Always.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“I thought we had the kind of love that could do anything.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“You suck at working with someone," I say, because it's true.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Instead of responding to me, he shakes his head and walks out of the room. And because I’m me, I follow. We are not done with this conversation.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Giving up on something is like admitting you never wanted it in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Never mind, mother, you weren’t far out; he is Alexander too.”
― Mary Renault, quote from The Persian Boy
“He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Mistborn
“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― quote from My Brilliant Friend
“The harm done by the FDA does not result from defects in the people in charge—unless it be a defect to be human. Many have been able and devoted civil servants. However, social, political, and economic pressures determine the behavior of the people supposedly in charge of a government agency to a far greater extent than they determine its behavior. No doubt there are exceptions, but they are rare—almost as rare as barking cats. That does not mean that effective reform is impossible. But it requires taking account of the political laws governing the behavior of government agencies, not simply berating officials for inefficiency and waste or questioning their motives and urging them to do better. The”
― Milton Friedman, quote from Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
― Ben Okri, quote from The Famished Road
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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