The best Book Quotes (Page 32)

"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.

Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

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.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense."

It's dangerous to keep quiet for too long. Your tongue shrivels up if you don't use it.

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 f*ck 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.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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

He who thinks too much, will not act.

What you don't give up, you never lose.