Famous Book Quotes That Readers Love

“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.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.”

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

“So it goes.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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