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

""Even the smallest person can change the course of the future" "
— Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."
— Jane Austen

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

Captain Wentworth to Anne Elliot"
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you... Almost from the earliest moments of your acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite my struggles, has overcome every rational objection. And I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

""you take delight in vexing me. Have you no compassion on my poor nerves?"
Mrs Bennett"
— Jane Austen

"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
— Jane Austen

"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I an in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an heroine's dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout helathy love it may. Every thing nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. -Elizabeth Bennett"
— Jane Austen

""I'm sorry Sandstorm" he murmured. "I never meant to hurt you" His voice barely more than a whisper, he added,"I love you."
Sandstorm's eyes glowed."I love you too,Fireheart.""
— Erin Hunter (A Dangerous Path)

""fire alone will save our clan"-Spottedleaf"
— Erin Hunter

"Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy your Clanmates and for your endless courage. So many cats owe their lives to you. Cinderpelt would have died after her accident if you hadn't tended to her. And when there was greencough, you fought day and night.... "
— Erin Hunter

"It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. (Agnes Grey)

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— Anne Brontë (Agnes Grey)

"About three things I was absolutely positive:
First, Edward was a vampire;
Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood;
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Twilight again, he murmured." Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls just did that on TV."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto?"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Bella, do you think any of us want to look into Edward's eyes for the next few millenniums if he loses you? You can't see the change that you've brought over him, but we can..."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Of all the things about me that could frighten you, you worry about my driving?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Oh, a sadistic vampire intent on torturing you to death, sure, no problem, you run off to meet him. An I.V. on the other hand."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

"I can't live in a world where you don't exist. - Bella Swan"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Edward. Edward. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. And a world without Edward seemed completely pointless. Edward had to exist."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I touched his face. Look, I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?
Yes, it is enough, he answered smiling. Enough for forever.
And he leaned down to press his cold lips one more to my throat."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Our relationship couldn’t continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely on his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I’d ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Edward: Friends don't let friends drive drunk.
Bella: I'm not drunk!
Edward: You are intoxicated by my presence.
Bella: And you are not intoxicated by my presence?
Edward: ...Regardless, I am a better driver"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Bella. Can you hear me?"

"No. Go away."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I think your friends are angry with me for stealing you."

"They'll survive."

"I may not give you back, though."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"He called you pretty. That's practically an insult the way you look tonight, you're much more than beautiful."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Your hair looks like a haystack, but I like it.
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)