The best Book Quotes (Page 29)

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.

The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

I know you miss me terribly. I miss you, too. But we still have each other, for I am - and always have been - part of you. You carry me in your heart, just as I carried you in mine, and nothing can ever change that.

The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we’ll find a way to make it work.

We shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.

Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.

Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

And in your smile, I will live forever.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.

Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

Take care of what can be done now, before worrying too long over what might never be.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.