My Favorite Book/Author Quotes

 

The Hunger Games by, Suzanne Collins:

"Everyone's going to either want to kiss you, kill you or be you!" -Effie Trinket

"May the odds be ever in your favor." -Effie Trinket

"Eyes bright, chins up, smiles on." -Effie Trinket

"You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him." -Haymitch Abernathy

"Remember who the real enemy is..."-Haymitch Abernathy

"Here's some advice. Stay alive." -Haymitch Abernathy

"You know, I like you better Effie, without all the makeup."-Haymitch Abernathy

"You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real."-Peeta Mellark & Katniss Everdeen

"I don't want to forget."-Peeta Mellark

You're my whole life. I would never be happy again."-Peeta Mellark

"...That's what you and I do, protect each other."-Katniss Everdeen

"At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite color...it's green?"

"That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange."

"Orange?" He seems unconvinced.

"Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least that's what you told me once."

"Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then he nods his head.

"Thank you." But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces." 

-Peeta Mellark & Katniss Everdeen

"Nobody needs me." 

"I do. I need you." -Peeta Mellark & Katniss Everdeen

"You have as much charm as a dead slug." -Haymitch Abernathy

Jane Austen:

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

-Sense and Sensibility

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

-Pride and Prejudice

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

-Emma

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

-Northanger Abbey

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!--When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

-Pride and Prejudice

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

-Pride and Prejudice

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

-Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

Sense and Sensibility

"It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do..."

-Sense and Sensibility

The Giver Quartet by, Lois Lowry:

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

"If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" -The Giver

"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none." -Gathering Blue

"The fact that I lost my son permeates my being." -Son

"It is better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving." -Son

C.S. Lewis:

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that we were made for another world."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Anne of Green Gables Series by, L.M. Montgomery:

"It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it."-Anne of Green Gables

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it...yet?" -Anne of Green Gables

"That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs."-Anne of Green Gables

"I couldn't live in a world with no trees--something vital in me would starve."-Anne of Green Gables

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." -Anne of Green Gables

"Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you." -Anne of Windy Poplars

"Life is worth living as long as there is a laugh in it." -Anne of Green Gables

"My library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend." -Anne's House of Dreams