Best Book Quotes 2020
1- “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
2– “I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3- “Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to
think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act if self-preservation. It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day
4- “V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
5- A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise, it wouldn’t even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
6- My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
7- I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
8- “How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― Don DeLillo, The Names
9- “If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.”
― Mark Glamack
10- “I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
― Jess C Scott, New Order
11- “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
12- If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
13- For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been having they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I’d turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however, it had happened, I’d somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I’d never forgotten.”
― Nicholas Sparks
14- I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
15- “You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”
― Gore Vidal
16- “Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”
― Doris Lessing
17 – “He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
18- “The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
19- “You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”
― James M. Cain
20 – “The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.”
― Brian A. McBride, Dominion
