Book Haven discussion

I love collecting quotes and whenever I get a good quote from a book I usually underline it and copy it down later. One I found recently is

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad ones."
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

and a favorite is

"Thou Mayest."
East of Eden

"Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows"-Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"Fate does not always seek our consent"-Terry Goodkind

"No army has ever marched into battle thinking that the creator has sided with their enemy"-Terry Goodkind

"The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless carrying me in his arms"-Richelle Mead

and....a lot of other quotes!

Rane wrote: ""..the next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found."
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— Lisa Kleypas (It Happened One Autumn)"

That's a good one Rane.

Joy those Terry Goodkind ones are good too.

Pg113: "Love at first sight for George and Claudette was not romantic and whimiscal. It was inevitable. The universe wanted it.
And the Universe always gets what it wants.
It is, after all, very, very big



Pg294: "He heard the occasional Putt-Putt of a Moped, that shameful combo of hair dryer and bicylce that the french seem unembaressed about being seen on


Craig Ferguson- Between the Bridge and the River



"Red Sox looked around Jane at the patient, “Your mind reading coming back?”

“With her? Sometimes?”

“Huh. You getting anything from anyone else?”

“Nope.”

Red Sox repositioned his hat. “Well, ah…let me know if you pick up shit from me, k? There are some things that I’d prefer to keep private, feel me?”

“Roger that. Although I can’t help it sometimes.”

“Which is why I’m going to take up thinking about baseball when you’re around.”

“Thank fuck you’re not a Yankees fan.”

“Don’t use the Y-word. We’re in mixed company.”


"You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
"Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
"Twice."
"Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen."


**"What was said about him, what the females needed to believe about him, was just oral masturbation for mouths that needed to be otherwise occupied"



JR Ward

this first quote I absolutely love the other three are close favorites.

"I inhale hope with every breath I take."
— Sharon Kay Penman (When Christ and His Saints Slept)



"Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition."
— Sharon Kay Penman (The Sunne in Splendour)



"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)



"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (The Laughing Corpse)

"I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car."
— Linda Howard (Mr. Perfect)

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)


"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Not exactly a quote that I think is a complete truth, but I think it is such an intriguing opening line and a great way to start off a book.

I really would like to read Anna Kerenina I hear such great things about it.

I would definitely recommend Anna Karenina. Takes awhile to get into and some parts are a bit slow, but all in all it's a good read.

LOVE the Linda Howard quote from Mr. Perfect!

Here are a few of my favorites (in no particular order) ...

"My professional aspiratons were simple-I wanted to be an intergalactic princess."
— Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum)

"Annabelle gazed wistfully toward the doorway. "If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking." - SEP's Match Me If You Can pg. 66

“He’d managed to get her alone before he’d left and tried to cross-examine her, but all of a sudden the kid no hablo-ed the inglés.” - SEP's Match Me If You Can

"Once again, the theme from Jaws blared in his head. He looked down. Pippi wore bright blue eye shadow ans sported a rosebud mouth slick with red lipstick." - SEP's Match Me If You Can p.132

"Pick you up at noon, hot stuff." As he walked away from her toward his car, she raised her voice. "Don't call me hot stuff!" "Sorry." He opened the door and slid inside. "Hot stuff, ma'am." - SEP's It Had To Be You p.200

"He shook his head and regarded her with disgust.'I married a damn cereal killer.'" - SEP's Nobodys Baby But Mine p.219 (when she stole the marshmallows out of his favorite cereal)

"I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways." Jennifer Crusie (Fast Women)

Just thought of two more. These make me smile ...

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth." Janet Evanovich

"I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us." Jen Lancaster

JK Rowling has some great ones too..


"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
--Sirius Black"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

I read this earlier in Brimstone and I couldn't help but laugh.


"Going to pick it?" D'Agosta asked.

Pendergast straightened. "Naturally." He removed his sidearm and shot into the lock once, twice, the deafening reports rolling like thunder up the alleyway.

"Jesus, I thought you said you were going to pick it!"

"I did. With my pick of last resort."

I just found one in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets I really liked.

Dumbledore: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle." - Night Shift, Stephen King

One of my favorite book OR movie quotes of all time:

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King

Basically anything said by jace in the Mortal Instrument series. Lol. I looove him.

"Omit needless words."
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

Just found a new one in East of Eden.

"There are no ugly questions except for those clothed in condescension." - Lee

"Drug use is not a disease, it is a decision, much like the decision to step out in front of a moving car."

Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly

YoudontGnomie wrote: "Pg113: "Love at first sight for George and Claudette was not romantic and whimiscal. It was inevitable. The universe wanted it.
And the Universe always gets what it wants.
It is, after all, very, ..."

lol the Black Dagger Brotherhood says some funny things

I love Jacob :)


Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?


Look, do you mind saving the stupid stuff for when
I’m around? I won’t be able to concentrate if I think you’re jumping off cliffs behind my back.


Sorry. I don’t have any leeches on my speed dial.

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

What do I look like, a pack mule?

Does my being half-naked bother you?

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

According to you, you’ve kissed just one person — who isn’t even really a person — in your whole life, and you’re calling it quits? How do you know that’s what you want? Shouldn’t you play the field a little?

Go fetch a space heater. I’m not a St. Bernard.

Reading Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic right now and it's got some funny quotes.

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.

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"I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, lord."

"Indeed? Then if I were you I'd sue my face for slander."

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It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

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Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting "All gods are bastards".