Do you have to read a book and know, “What page is this quote on?”
Well, here are some of the best book quotes with page numbers. Find the best book quotes in context for reference quotes about love, books, life, and time.
Love Book Quotes With Page Numbers
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
∼Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, (Character: Fatima), Page 119
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“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
~Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9, Page 81
“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, (Character: Peeta Mellark), Page 253
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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, (Character: Mr. Darcy), Page 28
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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway), Page 109
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“For you, a thousand times over”
~Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, (Character: Hassan), Page 2
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
~George Orwell, 1984, (Character: Winston Smith), Page 252
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“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
~Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Page 52
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chapter 1, October 14, Page 24
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, Pages 124-25
“There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 23, Page 248
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Page 232
“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
~Kiera Cass, The One, Page 295
“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I’m okay once I realize you’re here.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Page 86
“Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget. Never Never,”
~Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two, Silas, Chapter 20, Page 200
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Page 264
Book Quotes About Reading With Page Numbers
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, (Character: Scout Finch), Page 20
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“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Character: Guy Montag), Page 48
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
~Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Page 104
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, (Character: Caroline Bingley), Page 54
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, (Character: Hazel Grace), Page 33
“I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.”
~Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, Kya Clark, Chapter 16, Page 103
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, (Character: Holden Caulfield), Page 25
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
~G.K. Chesterton, from Neil Gaiman’s book, Coraline, Page 1
“…I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”
~Elie Wiesel, Night, Page XIV
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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
~Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, (Character: Liesel Meminger), Page 528
“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn’t keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”
~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, Page 179
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, (Character: Helmholtz Watson), Page 47
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“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don’t know how it’s going to end. Otherwise, there’d be no point in reading…”
~Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, Pages 138, 139
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives–or to find strength in a very long one.”
~V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Page 35
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“This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.”
~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, Page 67
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
~Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, Page 388
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“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
~Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Page 310
Book Quotes About Life With Page Numbers
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
∼ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, (Character: The King of Salem), Page 24,
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, (Character: Atticus Finch), Page 33
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
~Tara Westover, Educated, Chapter 22, Page 197
“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, Page 358
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
~Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue, (Character: Katrina), Chapter 3, Page 26
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 23, Page 18
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
~Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, (Character: Katniss Everdeen), Page 85
“We live, as we dream–alone….”
~Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Marlow, Part 1, Page 34
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale, Page 246-47
“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of “wrong” ideas.”
~Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Dana as the Narrator, The Fight, section 6, Page 141
“It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.”
~Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, Page 140
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Chapter 12, Page 214
“God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.”
~James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, Chapter 6, Page 51
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, (Character: Elizabeth Bennet), Page 133
“Paradise: If communism is Paradise, why do we need barriers, walls, and laws to keep people from escaping?”
~Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You, Cristian Florescu as the narrator, Chapter 43, PATRUZECI ȘI TREI, Page 147
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
~Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Edward, Chapter 11, Page 253
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
~Veronica Roth, Divergent, Will, Chapter 16, Page 206
“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”
~Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, (Character: Lily Melissa Owens as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 2
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
~Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Commander, Chapter 29, Page 187
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, The narrator, Stave III, Page 51
“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”
~Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, A Call To Action, Travis Smiley, Page 185
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
~Gayle Forman, If I Stay, Denny Hall, 2:48 AM, Page 172
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
~Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
~Neal Shusterman, Scythe, The narrator, Chapter 35, Page 388
“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
~James Dashner, The Maze Runner, Alby, Chapter 2, Page 9
“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
~Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us, Character: Ryle Kincaid), Chapter 1, Page 17
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.”
~William Golding, Lord of the Flies, (Character: Ralph), Page 89
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“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out—but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter (Pudge), Page 216
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
~Toni Morrison, Beloved, The Narrator, Part One, Page 112
“I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.”
~Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us, Josh Corrigan, Chapter 31, Page 278
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
~Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, The narrator, Page 264
“The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”
~William Golding, Lord of the Flies, (Character: Ralph), Page 82
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Celie, Page 195
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
~Yann Martel, Life of Pi, (Character: Pi Patel), Page 20
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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
~Yann Martel, Life of Pi, (Character: Pi Patel), Page 28
“I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (Character: Clarissa McClellan), Page 5
“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”
~Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, (Character: Isabel Conklin as the narrator), Chapter 23, Page 153
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
~Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway), Page 26
“What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.”
~Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Chapter 3, Page 187
“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
~Arthur Miller, The Crucible, John Proctor, Page 133
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Daisy Buchanan), Page 16
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 12, Page 101
“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
~Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Page 80
“You is kind…You is smart. You is important.”
~Kathryn Stockett, The Help, Chapter 34, Page 521
“There is no story that is not true, … The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Page 141
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
~Elie Wiesel, Night, Page 119
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Page 4
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”
~John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Page 30
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
~Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter 10, Page 263
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
~Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Govinda, Page 142
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
~Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, October 4, Page 284
“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
~R.J. Palacio, Wonder, Page 231
“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
∼Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning, Page 113
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
~Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Page 191
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Page 246
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
~John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Page 35
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“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
~S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, Page 18
“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
~Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Page 32
“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,’ that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise.’”
~Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Page 72
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
~Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Page 12
“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
~Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Page 373
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
~Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Page 100
“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
~Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Page 1,015
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Page 246-47
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
~Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Page 73
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
~Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Page 114
“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Page 79
“Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.”
~Rhonda Byrne, The Secret, Page 78
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
~Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, Page 80
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”
~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Page 1,069
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
~John Green, Paper Towns, Hour Twenty-One, Page 282
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
~Stephen King, It, Page 445
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
~George Orwell, Animal Farm, Page 134
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“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say.”~Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, Pages 5, 6
“Things usually work out in the end.”
“What if they don’t?”
“That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”
~Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, Page 259
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter 1, Pages 5, 6
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
~Lois Lowry, The Giver, Page 154
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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
~Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Pages 17-18, and 290
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“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
~Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Page 189
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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
~Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, Page 174
Book Quotes About Time With Page Numbers
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
~Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Page 24
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Page 110
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, Page 112
“Who controls the past… controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
~George Orwell, 1984, Page 34
“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
~Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Page 1,037
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
~Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Page 21
What are your favorite book quotes that I missed?