Book Quotes Quotes

“There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.”
― Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting

“The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from the "Best.”
― Paulo Coehlo

“You cannot know what light is
if you have not experienced darkness.
How could you know what happiness feels like
if you know not what it means to be sad?
Right does not exist without wrong
Hate exists because there is love.
You are either driven by fear or love.
To love is not to fear.
It is to be godly.”
― Carlyle Labuschagne, The Broken Destiny

“DRAMA: Be careful about being baited into the personal battles and confusion of others. If you want to help someone out emotionally, be certain he or she has made a commitment to the sacrifice before you intervene for his or her success. If you don’t, you’re likely to be drained of all your healthy energy with his or her selfish petty, pitiful pretending and negotiating. Be encouraged but more importantly if you can’t make it better, whatever you do don’t make it worse, for them and especially yourself”
― Kerry E. Wagner

“There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen”
― Olivia Cunning, Tie Me

“Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting."
I fought a smile. "A trained assassin who babysits."
"Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Kiss my ass."

"If you’d like me to start there.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Darkness of Light

“I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that
every breath was charmed and crisp.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Fire in the Darkness

“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“I’ll pray for good semen. And I’ll get all of my friends to pray for good semen.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“The pimple is perfect.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can’t fight for themselves. And every time I win a case, I not only win for the victim, but also for me.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“Do you remember the time, Mike,” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“I was just thinking that he might be willing. It’s not like he needs his semen.”
― Buffy Andrews

“One day comes after another and another and pretty soon you realize that yesterday was pretty damn long ago and that everything you had hoped for is never going to happen. You can’t control it any more than you can control that big wave from getting stronger before it nails you. All you can do is prepare and hope that when it hits, you’ll survive.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it’s too late and you’re face down eating sand.”
― Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

“From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight...”
― Brian A. McBride, Paradox

“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.
Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.”
― John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote

“Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough”
― Yoan Alexandrov

“Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift