Some books stick with you for a long time; certain book lines live in your heart forever. You know the one (or 10). Ahead are 26 stirring, emotive, life-changing book quotes that are pretty much impossible to forget. And why would you want to?
"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."
"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen."
"It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?"
"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."
"I wanted to touch the edges of my life — the same instinct, I think, that inspires young mortals to flip tractors and enlist in foreign wars."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"The best ideas are always the simplest."
"He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since."
"That's the beautiful thing about being human: things change."
"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
"'Miri, sweetheart — life is hard," Henry said, 'but it's worth the struggle.'"
"I will follow you to the ends of the world."
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
"Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire."
"His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway."
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."
"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."
"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever."
"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."