Explore Book Quotes

“Then let’s go to Las Vegas and pretend we haven’t got any relatives.”

“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”

“This sport demands only one thing from you. Your all.”

″There’s a place we all inhabit, but we don’t much think about it . . . We are untitled, untamed, natural, suspended between was and will be . . . We are, for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then . . . we become ourselves.″

“Of course Anna should be honored for donating her bone marrow. Of course she deserves recognition. But the thought of rewarding someone for their suffering, frankly, never entered my mind.”

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

“Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”

“It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo-American society. In the United States religion is therefore commingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism; whence it derives a peculiar force.”

“Being with Ky, being with Xander—both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.”

″...that Hercules was and was not a hero, that war is not heroic and that risking one’s life is not necessarily heroic.”