Quotes of: Book Keyword

Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, and it is durable, lasting whole days and nights, months; years, perhaps. It is not mortal. It strikes at the eyes, only the eyes.

The Book of Flights

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Il avait encore la peau recouverte d'acné juvénile et, pour que ça ne se voie pas, il portait sur son visage le masque de la révolte.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

The Book of Broken Hearts

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

The Bastard of Istanbul

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

The Book of Images

Even if most of the time we navigate so carefully we might as well be bombs trying not to explode, we are still always there, in each other’s paths. Just waiting for the moments we intersect.

The Book of Ivy

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

The Book of Joe

I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no more.

The Book of Job

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?

The Book of the City of Ladies

Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

The Book of Unholy Mischief

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

The Book of English Magic

Don’t let anyone hold you back. Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force!

A Book of Pearlables: Affirmations for Promises and Provisions

I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of the Astronaut, page 390.

The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

The Book of Questions