The best Book Quotes (Page 5)

“How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Time is a face on the water

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

At this point his dream stuttered; it caught in his mind like a bone in a throat.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

'You can go home now,' Tom told us.
'We'll meet next week. Then we can rob somebody and kill some people.'

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps.

But you’re everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.

Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.

We had a terrible start… doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

'People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.'

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a 'unique'; and wanted to add it to his museum.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Qui facit per alium facit per se. He who does a thing by the agency of another does it himself.

I'm broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you.

He locked you up because he knew- the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels . He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself.

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.

Pain and killing wouldn't win me.