“High heels, I'm convinced, are a creation of the Void and intended only to torture my poor unfortunate soles.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Sometimes there is no solution. Sometimes there's simply an end.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Sometimes the quickest solution ends in the most treacherous outcome.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things begin somewhere.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Every Heart a Doorway
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― Ivan Doig, quote from The Whistling Season
“If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, quote from How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“It's hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Lonesome Traveler
“Often he declined invitations, because to accept meant that he had to dust off his brogues, iron a shirt, brush down his best suit, take a bath, and splash on some cologne. He had also to be affable, to drink and be merry, to talk to strangers with whom he had no inclination to talk and with whom he was not being paid to talk. In other words, he resented having to play the part of a normal human animal.”
― Ian Rankin, quote from Knots and Crosses
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.