Book Quotes (Page 7)

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The beginning is always dark.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

We're not perfect. Any of us. We make mistakes, we screw up but then we forgive and move forward

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

A room without books is like a body without soul

I think ... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say!

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: to think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

'KILL ME!'
And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened.
'Please, Tommy. Please.'
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’ What did they call such young people in Goethe’s Germany?

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget (...). If I kept them all inside,my memories of them would start to diaappear,. And then I would disappear.

Everytime I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary.
Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

Wha if 'yes' was the right answer instead of 'no'? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. (...) Alone wasn't a room anymore, but the whole wide world, and now I was alone in that world, occupying it in a way I never had before.

I'd loved books in my regular life, but on the trail, they'd taken on even greater meaning. They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Fear, to great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and i had to find my own way out of the woods.

I considered my options. There was only one, I knew. There was always only one. To keep walking.

Otto thought it ironic that he had fought for a freedom that his friends and family at home did not have. Well, that's how it went sometimes.

What a wonderful girl - young woman. The future looked brighter suddenly. Now all he had to do was survive the next mission. And the ones after it.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

'I don´t know why I ever helped you.'
'Because you like broken things.'

Temper us in fire and we grow strong. When we suffer, we survive.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. [Sirius Black]

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her

Laters, Baby.

I wouldn't throw myself in front of the princess, I would throw myself in front of you!

What I need is a dandelion in the spring.
-Kateniss

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Let your inner DORK shine through.

I'll let you go. If you stay.

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always'.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

I need a chapter break.

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

I want you to help them open...because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Fuck all the firsts,Sky.The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.

The sky is always beautiful.Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy,it's still beautiful to look at...it'll be there no matter what...and I know it'll always be beautiful.

Once upon a time,
a little girl was raised by monsters.

But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

We can be only who we are; no more, no less.