The best Book Quotes

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon.

"Time heals all wounds."
"But every wound leaves a scar."

Most people have all the time in the world. They'll live to be eighty or older. But they don't use the time they have. They waste it on the couch, in front of the TV, or at the computer. They don't have time for the things that make life really worth living: other people, their friends and family, the friendship of a dog, the beauty of nature… They've lost all mindfulness.

So much pain and suffering could be prevented if the people in this miserable country would open their eyes and see what’s happening around them. But they’re just caught up in their own insignificant little problems, focused on their own pathetic existence. They could care less about the living beings around them.

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against because they read novels that tell them these tricks.

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

"I don't get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart."

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though.

And you never know when a meal will be your last... None of us do.

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

It's when you’re acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away - and going away means forgetting.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.

Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.

In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.

You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amazing: we change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. If all the cells in our body did this, we'd be immortal. But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don't renew. They age, and age us. In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can't have both.

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

"I don't believe in love."
"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not."

I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you.

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.

The trouble with getting your hopes too far up is: it's a long way down.

We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.

There's a Japanese phrase that I like: "koi no yokan". It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's closer to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them right away, but it's inevitable that you will.

People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.

I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.