The Best Book Quotes of 2023
This is a collection of the best book quotes of 2023, including Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Happy Place by Emily Henry, Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, Weyward by Emilia Hart, In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune, and others.
Enjoy memories, yes, but don’t be a slave to who you wish you once had been.Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea
Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
If you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes
Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it towards the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs – on the probabilities.Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
Maybe you need to stop retracing your footsteps. Maybe you need to try a new path.Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things
After all, we build our homes upon the ruins of lost cities and sail our ships over the drowned palaces of forgotten kingsShannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Falling in love with yourself is ten times harder than falling in love with someone else.Asher, Final Offer
Poverty does not just deprive people of security and comfort; it siphons off their brainpower, too.Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them.Jessica George, Maame
Time only moves in one direction, no matter how hard we wish it wasn’t so.Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour.Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Truth is, you’ll never meet a book lover who hates the quiet.Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment
What is the world, but a fleeting dream, from which we will all one day wake?Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night
It is unwise to let a man who isn’t king sit on a throne for too long.Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
Art is the friend that you can always return to. It will always be there to heighten your feeling of aliveness. Keep going.Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve
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Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Sometimes we don’t really know we’ve won until we see the reflection of that win in the loser’s eyes.Rachel Hawkins, The Villa
Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.R. F. Kuang, Yellowface
Our illusions weave roses around us, and when we try to escape, we are met with thorns.Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water
Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
Forty is when you have to stop kidding yourself that you’re still a young anything.Stephen King, Holly
Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t – the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame
Everyone who dies is alive. We call people “dead” because we need a word for it, but “dead” just means that time has stopped moving forward for that person? You understand? No one dies, not really.Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die
A great many things look different from a distance. Truth is like ugliness: you need to be close to see it.Emilia Hart, Weyward
Physics is like sex: it may yield practical results, but often that’s not why we do it.Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
If you’re with someone who doesn’t speak your language, you’ll spend a lifetime having to translate your soul.Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly
Being vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you trust yourself to be strong enough to handle the hurt. It’s actually the purest form of strength.Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light
Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back.Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust
Beauty is less easily perceived when it’s in an unassuming setting.Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret
Forgetting is essential to learning, just as exhaling is essential to breathing. Breathe out, then in. Find the self, then lose it once again. Thus, the path goes ever onward.Pierce Brown, Light Bringer
All that is good comes from the Gods. All that is evil comes from men.Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher
Sometimes you have to stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen.Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind
Forgiving others could be difficult, but forgiving yourself can sometimes feel impossible.T. J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets