The best Book Quotes

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Kobe Bryant in Training Camp

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

Murder

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

Paradise Hölle

Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can't deceive destiny. But then what if there's an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog's friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

Frogs

There are some things that you don't want to do and you pledge to yourself that you won't do, you forbid yourself, and then suddenly they happen all by themselves. You don't even have time to think about them, and they don't make it to the cognitive centres of the brain: they just happen and that's it, and you're left just watching yourself with surprise, and convincing yourself that it wasn't your fault, it just happened all by itself.

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

The same species can't remain dominant forever. Humanity can't be the only ones to survive extinction. Do you think the ammonites and the dinosaurs resisted extinction like we do? Of course not! They graciously accepted their destinies. They weren't just unintelligent enough to avoid it. Humanity goes around recording and sharing our past to help us predict our future, and because of that we just assume that we can change our destiny. That we can overcome something like the Death Stranding. But it's all lies. This world doesn't need us anymore. It's trying to evict us to make room for the next species. And the harder we try and the harder we struggle against it, the more we sully it. Being holed up in here, I bet you have no idea how beautiful the outside world is, do you? How harsh it is? The world didn't change into what it is now for mankind's sake. It's trying to change for the life that comes next.

Hitori Nojima in Death Stranding - The Official Novelization - Volume 2

I soared above the song birds
And never heard them sing
I lived my life in winter
And then you brought the spring

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

Spring

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

War

Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Talking Hearing & Listening

They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school - where is she now? It didn't happen to men as much. Those boys often grew up to be masters of the universe. The super successful girls? They seemed to die of slow societal suffocation.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Death

"Semper paratus." "It's Latin," Shane said. "It means 'Always ready'."

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Latin Phrases

Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Doctors kept stressing that mental disease was the same as physical disease. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. Maybe, to be more charitable, it was because you could hide a mental disease.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Depression

All around her, children and families played and laughed and reveled in the glory of this seemingly ordinary day. They did so without fear or care because they didn't get it. They all played and they all laughed and they felt so damn safe. They didn't see how fragile it all was.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Memories

The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Missing Someone

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Winning

Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Ideas

"Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said.
"Scream before they hit you."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Every Other Day

Siblings Sisters

There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Gambling

I don't believe in destiny or fate - I believe in choice.
Love wasn't just a choice - it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices.
Every day was a choice.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Decisions

In the tapestry of life, our inheritance is the thread that we weave into the fabric of history.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Breathing

Every choice we make shapes the legacy we pass on to the next generation.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Decisions

Beneath the guise of loyalty, betrayal can lie dormant, waiting for the right moment.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Loyalty Treason

"Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked.
"Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

Power is not in what you possess, but in how you wield it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Power

In the realm of secrets, answers are the most precious treasure.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Secrets

Secrets are the bricks that build the walls of mystery.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Secrets

I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"You have no right to tell me-"
"You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat."
"How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Good boy, Devon," I taunted. "You got me home before dark. If you can sit, shake and roll over, too, I'm sure Callum will give you a doggie treat."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Sad Quotes

"If I were choosing between you and any one of them," he'd told me, "I would choose them, always and every time."
But he hadn't.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Devil

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Money Power

We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Taken by Storm