The best Book Quotes (Page 25)

It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.

It doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.

But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.

There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.

Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.

We are all stardust and stories.

This is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.

"How are you feeling?" Zachary asks. "Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way."

A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.

It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

"Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

The sad truth about humanity... is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.

"Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent."

Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.

I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good - but we are all tested in this life… The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

When I can't bend heaven I will raise hell.

Happiness is only real when shared.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

I now walk into the wild.

It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

"Are you mine?"
"Yes, always."
I don't have a choice. I haven't since the day I met you.

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.

Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts."

"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.