“I have so little. To a beggar, even scraps become a feast.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The son of a cripple might be a cripple, but the son of tigers won’t be a dog.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The very idea beggared his imagination, but that only meant his imagination was too limited.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“Fate and destiny had held enough power over Janie for this lifetime, and she was done waiting for the sky to fall.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Marked
“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of individual success, not how one acquires money. Adopting that worldview changed the dynamics of work in black communities. Black men who could show they had money (no matter how they acquired it) could be among the powerful. It was this thinking that allowed hustlers in black communities to be seen as just as hardworking as their Wall Street counterparts.”
― bell hooks, quote from We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.”
― Susan Dennard, quote from Something Strange and Deadly
“Desearía que cada uno de ustedes fuera y besara a la persona que aman justo ahora, y lo saborearan (y saborearan todos los que le sigan a ese), porque cuando sabes que esos besos pueden terminar, que cada uno que compartes te lleva más cerca de la despedida, te preguntarás por qué desperdiciaste tantos.”
― Ali Harris, quote from The First Last Kiss
“Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from A Lancaster County Christmas
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.