Book Characters Quotes

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“No sacrifice is too big; no action is too low if it leads you to defeat your enemy.”
― River Jordan

“You're a throwback."
"To what?"
Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxically old-fashioned in her life. She didn't even own a television. "The nineteenth century," Jess concluded. "No. Eighteenth. You can be eighteenth. I'll be nineteenth."
"I never pictured you as a Victorian."
"No, early nineteenth century," said Jess, who had always been a stickler when it came to imaginary games and books. The Blue Fairy, not Tinker Bell. Lucy, not Susan. Jo, not Amy. Austen, not the Brontes.”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“You put this together this morning?
Pua lifted her head and glared at Raul. Look. I was effectively trapped inside my own office with a bomb outside my door. Presentations and spread sheets give me Zen. Back off.”
― Piper J. Drake, Forever Strong

“Some books don’t have likable characters, like life.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96