Book Quotes (Page 8)

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,' said Jojen. 'The man who never reads lives only once.'

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

'I was looking for a place to put my blood,' I said.
'Most people keep that inside,' she said. 'It's easier.'

Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough.

'One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one's liking.'

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

He was a killer, yes. He was a wetboy, yes. But was he a murderer?

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

I'm the one with Team Evil over here. You're Team Good. Keep it in mind.
-Clary

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.

We've loved each other! We always will! Let's Remember only that, and not try to understand what we cannot understand, or help things that cannot be helped - the things life has done to us we cannot excuse or explain.

I will remember you. Will you remember me?

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

...and i knew nothing,
looking into the heart of light, the silence.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

It is not possible in a long tale to please everybody at all points, nor to displease everybody at the same points.

There might be a god, and there might not, but I don't think it matters, Clary. Either way, we're on our own.

Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light, hidden at the heart of things.

Peeta: 'I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever.'

Songs are as sad as the listener.

They say the first year after a major loss is the hardest. That’s an understatement; loss is its own brand of insanity and no relief from it. There are no shortcuts and the only way through grief is through it. You just have to get up every day and wait to go to bed every night, then wake up and do it all over again.

Our bodies did the work but it was our souls that were conjoined.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

I'm sure that sounds odd, but looking at me and seeing me are two very different things.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Knowledge is like time, it forges a way forward but must look back over its shoulder to remember where it has come from.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery - today is a gift - that's why we call it present!

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

'Jesus!' Luke exclaimed.
'Actually, it's just me,' said Simon. 'Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.'

Will looked horrified. 'What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?'

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

'One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.