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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

J.K. Rowling

“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”

Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby Jr.

“Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones...gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.”

Blood Red Road

Moira Young

“Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”

It's a Magical World

Bill Watterson

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Rules of Civility

Amor Towles

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