Quotes from Books

It is a time of magic and mystery, a time when the veil between worlds is thinnest.

There are so many things to see, and so many things to do.

A tree that is the heart of Halloween.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.

Pain is not just a part of life; it can be a pathway to growth.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's.

The Martians were able to conquer the Earth not by brute force, but by the power of their technology.

We are all of us made of stars, and we live in a universe filled with wonders.

The law is an ass.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The world is not a friendly place; it is a place of trial and self-determination.

I would rather die than be a coward.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.

The Moonstone is, in fact, the first and most famous of the English detective novels.

I have always been a believer in the power of the imagination.

The perfect detective story should be a little like a game of chess.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Living below your means is the key to financial freedom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out and has taken you from me.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

In life, you'll meet a lot of people, but only a few will truly matter.

The key to happiness is to be true to yourself.

Freedom has a price, and I have paid it.

In life, you'll meet a lot of people who will say that they are against the regime, but in fact, they are just trying to save their own skins.

I never imagined that I would be able to write a book, let alone a book that would be published in so many languages.

Everywhere in the world, there are things that happen that are the same, but the way we react to them is different.

The hurricane was a natural calamity that revealed the limits of human knowledge.

In the face of nature's fury, the bravest and the most foolish are often indistinguishable.

You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

The law is not always a straight line.

I don’t know what it is, but I know what it isn’t.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Is there no way out of the mind?

I am a lantern, my body is a lamp.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

I want you to know why I can't be with you.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

This is not for you.

The only thing more terrifying than the house is your own mind.

You can't start a fire without a spark.

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?

I think that you have to have a very strong view about what you want to do and how you want to do it.

The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

The best way to keep people out of your city is to keep them from being able to walk in it.

In the long run, the best way to improve a city is to improve its streets.

The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present.

Fear, belief, love, and hope. The fabric of life.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

We are, in fact, fish, and the fish are still within us.

The story of our bodies is the story of our past.

To understand who we are, we must first understand where we came from.

The Looming Tower is a brilliant book that sheds light on the roots of the 9/11 tragedy.

Wright's ability to weave together complex narratives is unmatched.

This book is essential for understanding the motivations behind terrorism.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

You can’t choose your past, but you can choose your future.

What we do in life echoes in eternity.