Latest Quotes

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under the bed.”

— Keith Donohue, The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel

“Burn this book.”

— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“I used to be human once.”

— Indra Sinha, Animal's People: A Novel

“What's the worst thing you've ever done?”

— Peter Straub, Ghost Story

“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”

— Stephen King, It

“I thought I'd die bloody, just seemed like the likeliest way, given my line of work.”

— David Reed, Supernatural: Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting

“This was supposed to be a writer's retreat, it was supposed to be safe.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“This is not for you.”

— Mark Z Danielewski, House of Leaves

“There was nothing left to say.”

— Jodi Picoult, The Pact: A Love Story

“In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.”

— Jodi Piclout, Nineteen Minutes

“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.”

— Jodi Piclout, Nineteen Minutes

“I'm never good at first dates, I talk too much, Look away when his eyes find mine. I release awkward smiles Smiles that introduce him to the twelve year old in me. Smiles that coyly answer the questions He discreetly asked from me.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”

— John Green, Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars

“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, Where She Went

“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.”

— Gayle Forman, Mia, If I Stay

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister.”

— Jodi Picoult, Anna Fitzgerald, My Sister's Keeper

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Summer Quotes • Quotelicious

“I often think about that summer The sweat, the moonlight and the lace And I have rarely held another When I haven't seen her face And every time I pass a wheat field And watch it dancing with the wind Although I know it isn't real I just can't help but feel Her hungry arms again”

— Garth Brooks, That Summer