“Don’t ever think that just because you do things differently, you’re wrong.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Sometimes things don’t work out as they’re planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Fear seems to be the ruling judge.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Nothing ever stands still,” she told them. “And neither should you.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well...
Send her back to where she came.
Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Darkest Hour
“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from The One and Only Ivan
“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you’re going to do a good job with it.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, quote from Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
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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