The best Book Quotes (Page 19)

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

"Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and-"
He stood up. "Let's dance."

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.

I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

"Do you think I'm pretty?"
"I think you're beautiful."
"Beautiful?"
"You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes."

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

"You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date."

"Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone.
"You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind."

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface.

Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print... it gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

"Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."
Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked.
"Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?"

I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change.

I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.