Unabridged Bibliophile > Unabridged Bibliophile's Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“I like it that he’s taught me how to play poker, and that I’ve made him watch Harry Potter … and read the books. (He hadn’t touched them before me, the heathen.)”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“Saying gun control hurts our freedom is a false argument amounting to propaganda. Gun laws don't curtail freedom any more than speed limits or seat belts. You still get to drive your car and have guns, we're just trying to save lives as you do.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I could be making copies in the back room naked and covered in barbecue sauce, and none of them would comment.”
― Bella King, The Bratva's Christmas Triplets

“If I knew more about cars, I could probably give a more detailed, nuanced explanation of the damages, but “fucked” will suffice just fine.”
― Bella King, The Bratva's Christmas Triplets

“If this week has proven anything to me, it’s that I need to watch myself around this girl. She’s too perfect to ignore and too forbidden to be mine.”
― Sara Cate, Praise

“Being right does not always bring satisfaction,”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“She just didn’t think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up,”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Time, tide, and comets waited for no man.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“But no ruler could allow rivals once he ascended a throne. Such ascensions were… delicate, and largely fatal to non-victorious claimants.”
― S.C. Emmett, The Throne of the Five Winds

“Each room had seen several years of princes, running feet, and impatient questions as Mrong Banh explained science and stars to Garan Tamuron’s sons, but the round room most crowded with memories was this one in the middle of the cylinder, its sliding door opening onto a walkway-hall two floors above the ground. A long heavy wooden table stood in the exact center, and a small arrow-chamber off its interior side, curtained away, was where the astrologer often prepared tea for his guests. Shelves and scroll-racks marched in orderly, curved ranks in every direction, crammed with paper and scroll cases of wood, hide, ribbons of jointed bone. Some of the shelves held astrologer’s implements or other scientific junk, and good-luck charms hung from them next to babu and paper models of fantastical machines or structures. The high wooden ceiling was studded with hooks, and sometimes Banh had hung particular models or constellation-shapes from them to teach princes the movements of the Five Winds—or other forces—upon the night sky.”
― S.C. Emmett, The Throne of the Five Winds

“If you ever touch her again, I’ll break your fucking hands. She’s mine. Got it?”
― Marion Blackwood, Throne of Ice and Blood

“Because if I have to see you in this collar one fucking second more than absolutely necessary, I’m going to start killing people.”
― Marion Blackwood, Throne of Ice and Blood

“So hate me all you want, little rebel. And fight me all you want in private. But out here, in public, you need to act as if I’m your God.”
― Marion Blackwood, Throne of Ice and Blood