Best of Literary Quotes…

• “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
• “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• “ It is better to be the ruler in Hell, than the servant in Heaven”. – John Milton, Paradise Lost
• “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then”.  – Lewis Carroll – Alice in The Wonderland.
• “Not all those who wander are lost”. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
• “And, now that you don’t have to be perfect you can be good.” —East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
• “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
• “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” —I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• “‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh. ‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet. ‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”—The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” — E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
• “You are your best thing.” —Beloved by Toni Morrison

• “Just because your version of normal isn’t the same as someone else’s version doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with you. —The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne
• “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not”. – André Gide, Autumn Leaves
• “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other”. –  John Steinbeck , Of Mice And Men
• “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” —Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
• “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” — George Orwell, Animal Farm
• “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
• “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
• “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” — Roald Dahl, The Witches

• “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.
• “The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end.” ― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
• “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
• “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind”. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
• “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
• “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning”.  – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
• “Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
• “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• “ It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason”. – Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
• “But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight’. – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
• “You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” — Jane Austen, Persuasion
• “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
• “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
• “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”. – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

• “It was a pleasure to burn.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
• “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables