The Best Book Quotes of 2025

Life can be a little s*** sometimes. But s*** also makes great fertilizer. Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

Being good and being brave are not the same. A compassionate coward can inflict as much damage as any villain. Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal

Sometimes, family isn’t just what you’re born into – it’s also what you build in the aftermath of loss. Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

Power is not a material possession that can be given. Power is the ability to act and that must always be taken, for no one will ever give that power to you. Those who have power wish to keep it, and those who want power must learn to take it. Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Books do not find value when they are written. They find value when they are read. Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself. Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice. And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego. Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

We all have violence inside of us. It needs only the right fuel. Kate Alice Marshall, A Killing Cold

It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one. Brynne Weaver, Scythe & Sparrow

Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past. John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The best moments don’t have to be big to be forever. Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

Pride is taking less than you need. Generosity is leaving a gift for others. Nita Prose, The Maid's Secret

People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it. Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

Happy endings are just stories that aren’t finished yet. Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them. Fredrik Backman, My Friends

It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else’s cause than to sit with who we are without one. Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

The funny thing about the internet is that it is basically a collective hallucination. If you don’t join in, it doesn’t exist. Katherine Center, The Love Haters

Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway. Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

It’s better to be yourself and have no friends than to be like your friends and have no self. Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

In love, we forgot that we too were things that could get broken or lost. Ian McEwan, What We Can Know