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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter”

Living Dead in Dallas

Charlaine Harris

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

“The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.”

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Charles Bukowski

“Things never happen the same way twice.”

Prince Caspian

C.S. Lewis

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

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