Quotes from Books

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) 


 "People find it far easier to forgive other for being wrong than being right" 
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 












" It's not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not . I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by the "joy of the strife"






Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)







"Perhaps I'm dead. I wonder how you would know? If you died in your sleep and woke up dead, who would let you know?"










"Until you understand that, you will wonder why people are unhappy. They are unhappy because they have chosen to be unhappy, and Richard, that it's all right!" 












“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” 
 










" He always carried a book to read and this allowed him not to look the walls of the reception"










       " In order

          to live free and happily

                  you must sacrifice

                       boredom.

                                  It's not always an easy

                                                sacrifice"









"Sometimes the only way to win is to surrender"














"As soon as she left the room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up ... but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that"
 










"Talk is free," said Odd. "But the wise man chooses when to spend his words"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." 
 -Nelson Mandela 
 






"Often he would come home with books for her, for Christmas or her birthday, or for no particular occasion at all, some of them early editions with beautiful gold trim, other used paperbacks bought for a dollar or two on a street corner"









" Tal laughs. "Piece of shit car: five dollars. Value of Norah's opinion: three cents. Irony of her calling me an asshole: priceless"
 

I Capture the Castle








"-  Isn't this a lovely home for you?

 I agree that it was; and I still think so. But anyone who could enjoy the winter here would find North Pole stuffy"


PS, I Love You
An Abundance of Katherines 






"- From now on I will be a sensible, mature thirty-year old woman.
  - Yeah, that's what I said too"










" There was little correlation between a really high IQ and making a significant contribution to the world"

An Abundance of Katherines










" What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"



Anna and the French Kiss 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
 
 
 
 

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