“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
“Oops is the sound we make when we improve our beliefs and strategies; so to look back at a time and not see anything you did wrong means that you haven’t learned anything or changed your mind since then.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, quote from Rationality: From AI to Zombies
“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”
― John Calvin, quote from Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Jellicoe Road
“It’s a mother’s greatest joy and greatest burden, having children to worry about. You can’t have one without the other.”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
“Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.”
― Bryn Greenwood, quote from All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
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.
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