CL > CL's Quotes

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place

“In most crime novels the violent act, usually the murder, is the engine. Take that away and there is little left to drive the story along. So I do get a little cross with authors who aren’t precise about the violence they’re using to create tension because I feel they’re being dishonest with their readers. If people don’t like the blood and violence in my books, fine, they can always close the cover and put it aside and maybe read a romance instead. – Mo Hayder”
― Mo Hayder

“It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.”
― S.J. Bolton, Dead Scared

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
― H.G. Wells

“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”
― Haruki Murakami

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
― Rollo May

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
― Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win

“When in doubt, choose to live.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”
― Paulsen, Gary

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
― Colleen Hoover

“She had not always been in my life, but life before her seemed like a charade.”
― Matt Abrams, She's Toxic

“She was getting worse, but I knew that I had to stand by her. I knew the type of woman she really was and I needed to find a way to help her find herself. She didn’t give up on me when I hit bottom, so I wouldn’t give up on her.”
― Matt Abrams, She's Toxic

“I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.”
― Matt Abrams, She's Toxic

“We could have simply passed like ships in the night, with serendipity eluding us.”
― Matt Abrams, She's Toxic