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Top Quotes from Top Books of All Time

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“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”

Xenocide

Orson Scott Card

“Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive, but not be able to live it. Ay that's the rub. I am like a stone that lives . . . locked outside of all that's real. . . . Anne, do you know of such things, can you hear???? I wish, or think I wish, that I were dying of something for then I could be brave, but to be not dying, and yet . . . and yet to [be] behind a wall, watching everyone fit in where I can't, to talk behind a gray foggy wall, to live but to not reach or to reach wrong . . . to do it all wrong . . . believe me, (can you?) . . . what's wrong. I want to belong. I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen.”

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Anne Sexton

“She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”

Punk 57

Penelope Douglas

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

“Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

The Last Vampire

Christopher Pike

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

Second Glance

Jodi Picoult

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”

Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Elizabeth Chandler

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