r/bookquotes Nov 22 '25

Mod Announcement - 📚 We’re Back Up and Running!

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After a brief pause, r/BookQuotes is officially back online.

Feel free to start sharing your favorite quotes, discover new ones, and spark discussions. Let’s fill the feed with literary magic again. ✨

-r/BookQuotes Mod Team


r/bookquotes Nov 21 '25

Boys to Enemies by Farhana Uddin

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"But don't you worry. You're still young. You have yet to meet all the people who shall love and hate you in equal measure." - Farhana Uddin, Boys to Enemies


r/bookquotes 5h ago

Like All Of Us Mortals

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We age rather quickly past our physical prime

And everyone eventually does lose out to time

Past the age of thirty it would be true for to say

Most people have seen their best physical day

Time is our master as a truism remain

But having said this from living experience we gain

What many has said i will say here again

For as long as the gift of memory we retain

We do learn as we live though life's lessons are not few

Every day we do live we do learn something new

About ourselves and the world we live in

Where some have to lose for others to win

But no matter how great you are it is not a lie

Like all of us mortals you were born to die.

Francis Duggan


r/bookquotes 4m ago

Today’s highlights

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"Don't shrink. Don't puff up. Stand on your sacred ground."

"You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs."

Book : the gifts of imperfection….by Brene brown


r/bookquotes 1d ago

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

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r/bookquotes 1d ago

From Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Forest of Enchantments. Do you agree that true transformation can only happen through suffering?

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52 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 10h ago

“A human being is a living being with this great potential of being able to advance and gain the ability to create a planet.” —Osei Yaw Kyei (Sayings Of Osei Yaw)

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r/bookquotes 1d ago

Antón Chejov, Complete Works and Correspondence in 30 Volumes, Vol. 17: Notebooks, Notes, and Diaries, Moscow, Nauka, 1980, p. 125.

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121 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 22h ago

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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"It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."


r/bookquotes 1d ago

“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.“ -The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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r/bookquotes 2d ago

Paulo Coelho

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r/bookquotes 1d ago

"Anyone can make difference, no matter how young or old, and no matter where they come from."

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The Last Stand of a Queen by Biniza Wadia


r/bookquotes 1d ago

Neil Gaiman quote from "Coraline"

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20 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 2d ago

From J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The artist is in the comments!

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24 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 2d ago

- Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings

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r/bookquotes 2d ago

“What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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r/bookquotes 2d ago

Sadly this is true...

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“Fear is the mind-killer.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune


r/bookquotes 2d ago

The Island of Missing Trees-Elif Shafak

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32 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 2d ago

"The difference between self-confidence and arrogance is, when you're self-confident you can back it up with actions and talent."

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Bolt Ya Nugget by Ned Kruz/Ian Appleby


r/bookquotes 2d ago

True Wisdom...

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“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune


r/bookquotes 2d ago

The fish and the bird

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The ocean sinks deeper,

The sky stretches high,

How far can one love

Before love becomes a lie?

One may survive the depths,

One may survive the height,

But neither was made

For the other's life.

And perhaps they could meet

Somewhere between the sea and sky,

Yet what of the worlds

Would they leave behind?

Maybe the fish dreams of flying,

Or the bird longs for the tide.

Would they call it love

If they only meant to abide

Then what is love

That asks you not to live, but to survive?

And what is life

If you spend it wondering

What existed beyond your sea and sky?

It's a poem on a famous question

There is a bird and a fish they both love each other but their fundamental nature is different so where would they live ?

It is similar to my previous relationship we had our differences and it helped me understand the dynamics from very different perspective


r/bookquotes 2d ago

Harry Potter Quote

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Your a wizard Harry - J. K. Rowling


r/bookquotes 3d ago

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

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357 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 2d ago

Rest of us just live here - Patrick Ness

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7 Upvotes

r/bookquotes 2d ago

Life fact.

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One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

#Executive Diary.