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Want to See Your Favorite Book Quote on the Goodreads App?
Every time you open our iOS and Android apps we show you an inspiring or thought-provoking book quote. Our members say that it's one of their favorite things about the app! The Goodreads engineering team is ready to update our list of quotes, and we'd love to hear your ideas—please share your favorite quote, or a link to the quote on Goodreads, in the comments below.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:54PM
This is without question one of the best features of the app, however I've learned I have to have hands ready to screencap it as soon as the app opens because the quote doesn't stay up long enough to read it. So by screencapping I can go to my photos and read the entire quote. Awesome feature overall! *quote lover here*
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P.S. Will add quotes tomorrow. Love this!!!!! Thank you, Goodreads! :)
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” ― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
― Maya Angelou
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― Maya Angelou
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace
"The pursuit of truth, when it is wholehearted, must ignore moral considerations; we cannot know in advance that the truth will turn out to be what is thought edifying in a given society."- Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
"Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well - and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told." - Dean Koontz, Innocence
"As to my books, I would like best to send you all that might give you pleasure. But I am very poor, and my books, when once they have appeared, no longer belong to me." -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
- Mary Oliver
“Once upon a time, we were innocent. And then we were not.” ― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Dies
"We are sparks in an unknown wind" Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country, Erich Maria Remarque
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”― Justin Cronin, The Passage
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.-Albert Einstein
"Everyone is identical in their secret, unspoken belief that they are different from everyone else."
-David Foster Wallace
-David Foster Wallace
"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.” - Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, DuneDune
“For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.” ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
"Any woman who thinks she is in control has never taken her baby on a fight when the baby couldn't clear its ears, taken a 2 year old to the doctor for her immunization shots, taken a three year old to Chuckie Cheese and told her its time to leave, taken a four year old on a hike only to find that the child had diarrhea, or tried to convince a five year old that aliens weren't going to take over earth today.Evolution of the Feminine Mystique--Malia Litman
'Ah, what is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man
'All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber' Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
"'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven."Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on." - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Night Eternal
"There's nothing at all in here," she said much later, her voice hoarse. "I'm cleaned out. I'm empty"Haruki Murakami, after the quake
"His was the typical evolution of every noble mind; working and growing harmoniously and at the same tempo, the inner self and the outer world approached each other."Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."Shel Silverstein
"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip
"There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of harmony" - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
"Gaze fastly into the darkness and find thete the things that will be of use to you" - Natsume Sōseki"We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect." - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." -- Jean Racine
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."-Stephen King
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.” ― Terry Pratchett
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Water, water, every whereNor any drop to drink." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei
"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."-Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”― Jo Walton, Among Others
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." - Terry Pratchett
"Books are uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
"My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction." - Tahereh Mafi
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” ― Nora Ephron
“Shoulda, woulda, coulda. They were the Three Stooges of regret. All they were good for was saying whoop-whoop-whoop and smacking each other over the head.” ― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart
"Faz tudo como se alguém te contemplasse." - Epicuro
"I am haunted by humans." - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. ~ To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
"My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met." -Jonathan Safran Foerhttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1462...
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
"Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."-Kurt Vonnegut:)
"Be careful of what you say and do in life, you never know whose watching."-Gil Swanson, Valkyrie: Darkness Awaits.
