26 Book Quotes That Will Make You Rethink EVERYTHING

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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?

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I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope."

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."

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Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

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Matilda by Roald Dahl

"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen."

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The Giver by Lois Lowry

"It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?"

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

"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."

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

"The best ideas are always the simplest."

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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

"He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since."

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

"That's the beautiful thing about being human: things change."

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

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In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

"'Miri, sweetheart — life is hard," Henry said, 'but it's worth the struggle.'"

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

"I will follow you to the ends of the world."

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

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The Green Mile by Stephen King

"Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire."

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Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

"His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway."

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Stardust by Neil Gaiman

"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."

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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever."

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Looking For Alaska by John Green

"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."

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