"I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary.com and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?'"
— Juliet Cook

""O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.""
— William Shakespeare

"Juliet: Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay,
And that bare vowel ay shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
I am not I,if there be such an ay,
Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay:
If he be slain say ay,or if not,no:
Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe."
— William Shakespeare

"I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown"
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, thou art thyself though not a Montague. What is Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Oh, what's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection to which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name! And for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself.
"
— William Shakespeare

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
— Juliet Ashton

"I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?"
— Nick Hornby (Juliet, Naked: A Novel)

""Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married"

"It is an honor that I dream not of""
— William Shakespeare

"Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Romeo: [They kiss] Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took?
Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
Juliet: [they kiss again] You kiss by the book.
"
— William Shakespeare

"O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

""See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
that I might touch that cheek!"
"
— William Shakespeare