“I'll give you the moon and the stars, Princess... and maybe a city to go along with it.”
― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
“Tell me, Choi Yoori...are your lips as soft as they look?”
― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
“You can call me Boss though, seeing as though you're only the assistant.”
― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
“With no filter, he said, "I thought it would have been softer. It was kinda salty...”
― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
“Tell me, Choi Yoori...are your lips as soft as they look?”
― quote from Welcome to the Underworld
“It almost made him feel sorry for Colin and that was just as unthinkable an estate as marriage.”
― Allison Tebo, quote from The Reluctant Godfather
“The eyeless tick climbs onto a grass stem to await the smell of butyric acid emanating from mammalian skin. Since experiments have shown that this arachnid can go for eighteen years without food, the tick has ample time to meet a mammal, drop onto her victim, and gorge herself on warm blood. Afterward she is ready to lay her eggs and die.”
― Frans de Waal, quote from Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
“emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line."
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― Louise Penny, quote from A Great Reckoning
“Knowledge, then, can be dangerous because a rational mind may be compelled to use it in rational ways, allowing malevolent or careless speakers to commandeer our faculties against us. This makes the expressive power of language a mixed blessing: it lets us learn what we want to know, but it also lets us learn what we don't want to know. Language is not just a window into human nature but a fistula: an open wound through which our innards are exposed to an infectious world. It's not surprising that we expect people to sheathe their words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of doublespeak.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
“I think,” Bob said, “that a person can always find what they’re looking for, whether it’s there or not. They’ll just see what they want to see.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold
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The Gulag Archipelag...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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