“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
“I worry sometimes that our world actually values a lack of intelligence. Like we are considered normal if we spend our time thinking about what one of the Kardashians wears to a party, and we are considered strange if we wonder whether a bee’s parents grieve if said bee dives into the Central Park Reservoir and never makes it back to the hive.”
― Bill Konigsberg, quote from The Porcupine of Truth
“You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her.
"No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"
"Do i make you nervous?"
"No. I'm not nervous."
"You're trembling."
"I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes."
His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Prom Nights from Hell
“But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.”
― Jean Toomer, quote from Cane
“ما من انسان يستحق أن يلتفت إليه.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Double
“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”
― Allan Bloom, quote from The Closing of the American Mind
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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