20 Of The Best Book Quotes Of All Time

Updated: The Best Book Passages

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    • Publish Date: Feb 16 2017 5:48PM
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    • Updated Date: Mar 8 2017 11:57AM
Updated: The Best Book Passages

Once read, a great passage or a beautiful line, makes a permanent home in your head. You may have read the book a long time back, forgotten a character's name or the year it was published, but you don't forget a favourite passage. The best quotes stay in your head and pop up at random moments, as if they have a life of their own. Such quotes are better than best friends on some days. They are full of advise, inspiration and don't let you feel bad even if you are having the worst day of all time.

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Update 2: Some of you really know what to choose! We loved the the heartfelt lines that you submitted over the past few days.

 

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Update 1: Thanks for writing in to tell us your favourite book line. Here are the ones that we loved the most. 




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Original article: Which is the best book passage you have ever read? 
Here are some of our favourite ones. Feel free to add yours in the comment section. The best ones will be highlighted when we update the section. (And if you don't know what you mean by update, you obviously weren't part of our one line story contest) So don't wait, register to comment.  


 You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... - Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!  


Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude


Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.  - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am. - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. - Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies


Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind. -Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater


As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars


There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. - Bram Stroker, Dracula


Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore


In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank


Journeys end in lovers meeting. -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night


She was lost in her longing to understand. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera


Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. - Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye 


You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. -Cormac McCarthy, The Road


Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. -Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. -Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner


We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale


It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist


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Wit beyond measure is man''s great treasure. J K Rowling in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix.

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Work until you don''t have to introduce yourself.

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you can''t live long enough to make them all yourselves! - Chanakya Neeti.

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“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” — Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. - J.K. Rowling, The harry potter series

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Love in one face, hatred in other, none of which i kne was more dangerous. Agatha Christie in Death comes as the end

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Now you are what you wanted to become. This proves that thoughts rule us and we create them. Everything now you are is because of you.

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Now you are what you wanted to become. This proves that thoughts rule us and we create them. Everything now you are is because of you.

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fame is the last infirmity of noble minds

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📖Knowledge with conscience enlightens soul📖

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" Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one remembers to turn on the light " said by Albus Dumbledore in the book series Harry Potter written by J K Rowling.

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“All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.” - Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others” – L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.” – George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."-The Lord of the rings.

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There are two ways of spreading light to be candle, or the mirror that reflects it. -Chetan Bhagat Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition.

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“There can be no fees for public work.” The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mahatma Gandhi

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''but these are the wounds of Love.'' - The Selfish Giant

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"No limits, Jonathan? he thought, and he smiled. His race to learn had begun." - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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"False hope is clung to with all one''s might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes." The Postmaster

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"MY HEART, like a peacock on a rainy day, spreads its plumes tinged with rapturous colours of thoughts, and in its ecstasy seeks some vision in the sky,...." Gitanjali

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"Don''t rest after your first victory because if you fail the second time,there are so many lips to say that your first victory was just luck" -By A.P.J Abdul Kalam

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Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard

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Science can set limits to knowledge but it cannot or should not set limits to imagination

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When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to a rock that is higher than I -Psalm 61:2

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Noting in this world is ever completely wrong, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Paulo Coelho, The winners stand alone.

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. --Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. --Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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There is no problem without a solution. If it does not have a solution, then it is not a problem.It is just an imagination.

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Winners don''t do different things. They do things differently. -Shiv Khera, You can win.

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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. -The Alchemist.

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Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life. - The Secret.

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My troubles are all over, and I am at home and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

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My troubles are all over, and I am at home and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

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“It is good people who make good places.” ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

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"When people don''t express themselves, they die, one piece at a time. You''d be shocked how many adults are dead inside — walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish up the job. It''s the saddest thing I know." Mr. Freeman, Speak Laurie Halse Anderson

Akshita Pandey LILAVATI BAI PODAR (A)-SCRUZ

"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if one remember to turn on the light."-Albus Dumbeldore from the Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling.

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