As you all know, I am a total sucker for quotes! For the last two years, I have posted lists of my favorite book quotes. Feel free to check out the previous years below:
Let’s dive into my list for this year!
My Favorite Book Quotes from 2019
“Because this world needs more storytellers. It needs more dreamers, And yes, it needs more nerds.”
— Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
— On Writing by Stephen King
“How dangerous people can become when they’re scared…”
— An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
“Love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
— The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
“The required skill missing from every big company job posting is “ability to get work done during the small windows between meetings.”
— Cubicleland by Rook Winters
‘Welcome to life! It’s a bit shit. But not always.’
— Jennifer Brown’s Journey by Angie Langley
“It was beautiful up here. Full of pine and mountain views, and the kind of quiet that made your thoughts loud.”
— Sweetbriar Cottage by Denise Hunter
“People say that life finds a way. Perhaps, sometimes, death does too.”
— The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor
“The assassin was on him an instant later, the dagger thirsting for his blood now as its tip sailed downward.”
— High Treason (Sellswords, #6) by T.L. Branson
“… None of us can change the road on which fate had placed us… but we can decide which steps to take.”
— The End of the World is Nigh by Tony Moyle
“He reached forward and turned on the radio. With the windows down and radio up, we sailed through the night and straight toward disaster.”
— Threshold by J.M. Kaukola
“The things that go wrong in life allow us to create new life, Jeb told her. “It takes a lot of strength to do that.”
— The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets
“Doing good deeds– makes this rotten world just a little better.”
— Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
“It was different, knowing it with certainty instead of assuming it. It cut deeper.”
— The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
“…the fearbone, like the funnybone, is located in different places on different people.”
— Pet Sematary by Stephen King
“For Frank, music was like a garden – it showed seeds in far-flung places. People would miss out on so many wonderful things if they only stuck with what they knew.”
— The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
“Children of islands and the coast went one of two ways: they learned to fear and respect the water, or the learned to live for it.”
— Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
“When you stop and hold yourself accountable for those negative thoughts by challenging them, they hold less weight. The more often you prove them wrong, the less control they’ll have over your mood.”
— Georgia, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark
“Words could do extraordinary things, but sometimes they were not enough.”
— A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
“I’m sure some would say it’s my own damn fault. That is was my responsibility to build an emergency fund. At least three months’ salary, the experts say. I would love to backhand whoever came up with that number. They clearly never had a job with take-home pay that barely covers, rent, food, and utilities.”
— Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
“Never be afraid of your feelings. Although they may overwhelm you at times, there is a strength that is born out of weakness.”
— Dear Scarlet The Story of my Postpartum Depression by Teresa Wong
“I had set my own shadow on fire and watched it burn. I was a lost boy no longer. I was free.”
— There Are Monsters Here by Cameron Chaney
“I sip my wine. After several generous gulps, I’m feeling the magic on the back of my neck, down my spine. There is again space in my lungs for breath.”
— When We Believed In Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
“Dan and Dad’s relationship always had an edge on it, as if the two men couldn’t quite embrace each other’s ways and personalities. They were like two jigsaw pieces with the same but if sky on, but which didn’t fit together.”
— The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
“If we aren’t here for one another, why are we here?”
— Breathless by Dean Koontz
“The day had fulfilled its promise- warm with a light breeze. The current of the East River, often so strong, seemed as mellow as the sunshine.”
— Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
“… the rules you should be living by every day: Be kind. Be true. Don’t be an ass. Use your head.”
— Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen
“There was something cathartic about putting things in order, about organizing things on the outside even if she was a mess on the inside.”
— The Shoreless Sea by J. Scott Coatsworth
“Love isn’t something you brush aside or save for later because there will never be a later. It’s something you make time for today. Without it, what point is there to all of this? Why fight for our kingdom except to protect the ones we love? Without love, we have nothing worth fighting for.”
— Sworn Guardian (Forbidden Magic, #1) by T.L. Branson
Thanks for reading!
Did you have any favorite quotes from the books you read in 2019?
So many good reads on this list! I love quotes as well.
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Ahh so many great quotes!
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