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Famous Book Quotes That Readers Love

by Editorial Staff

Have you ever been reading a book when, all of a sudden, a line makes you stop in your tracks? Sometimes, authors can almost read our minds and put words to a feeling or sensation that perfectly captures our emotions. Here are some of our favorite quotes that are beloved by readers around the world. We hope they strike a chord with you as well!

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    Love in the Time of Cholera

    by Gabriel García Márquez

    “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
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    The Haunting of Hill House

    by Shirley Jackson

    “Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
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    Pride and Prejudice (A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick)

    by Jane Austen

    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.”
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    Dune (Movie Tie-In)

    by Frank Herbert

    “From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
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    Slaughterhouse-Five

    by Kurt Vonnegut

    “So it goes.”
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    Snow Country

    by Yasunari Kawabata

    “The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”
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    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

    by Ocean Vuong

    “Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you’d know it’s a flood.”
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    The Phantom Tollbooth

    by Norton Juster

    “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    by Maya Angelou

    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
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    People We Meet on Vacation

    by Emily Henry

    “It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.”
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    A Little Life

    by Hanya Yanagihara

    “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are — not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving — and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad — or good — it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
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    Kafka on the Shore

    by Haruki Murakami

    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
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    Jazz

    by Toni Morrison

    “Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
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    White Teeth

    by Zadie Smith

    “You are never stronger … than when you land on the other side of despair.”
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    The Lowland

    by Jhumpa Lahiri

    “Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
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    Middlemarch

    by George Eliot

    “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
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    The Razor’s Edge

    by W. Somerset Maugham

    “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
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    Exit West

    by Mohsin Hamid

    “To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
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    Station Eleven

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    “Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
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