Book Quotes (Page 3)

'Morning, sunshine.'
Vlad blinked at her. 'Morning, sulfuric acid.'
'Pardon me?'
'Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?'

'I drive well!'
'Says who your mom?'
'No actually, she won't even get in the car with me.'

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.

M for Maven, M for monster, M for murder.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

If you fail, you burn

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

I'm sad because my sadness is not sadness.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

We learn more by remembering than forgetting.

You only get healing by remembering.
Forgetting is just suppression.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.

I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.

I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet.

That’s how you know you’ve mastered a videogame - when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they’ve just suffered at your hands.

That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

Going outside is highly overrated.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

'You’re evil, you know that?' I said.
She grinned and shook her head. 'Chaotic Neutral, sugar.'

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.

"It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happens. You don't think or plan. You just do it."

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.'