Bookworm’s Bites

Remarkable book quotes to lift your spirit, brighten your day, and get you thinking.
Maybe it will even get you to pick up a book and read it! 📚

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“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
- Agatha Christie, The Clocks

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“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose
#BeYourself #beyou

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“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
#Dance

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“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
#Live

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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
#writerslife #WritingCommunity

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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
- Albert Camus, The Fall

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“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
- Franz Kafka, The Castle
#seethrough

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“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#NatureBeauty

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“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
#Wisdom

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“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”
- Richard Russo, Empire Falls
#friend #BFFs

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“Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
#knowledge

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“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
#mentoring

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“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
- Richard Powers, The Overstory
#storytelling #booktwt

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“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
#helpinghands

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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#flame

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"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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"You are your best thing."
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
#Loveyourself #SelfLove

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"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night
#BeBetter