50 Tumblr Book Quotes That Will Make You Dive into Literature

Those who love us never truly leave us.

J.K. Rowling

We were all born so beautiful. The great tragedy is that they convince us that we are not.

Rupi Kaur

What is the biggest lesson a woman can learn? That from day one, she’s always had everything she needs within herself. It was the world that convinced her she hadn’t.

Rupi Kaur

You gave me an eternity within our days.

John Green

I know there are people who say these things don’t happen, and that these will just be stories one day. But now we are alive. And in that moment, I swear. We’re infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

Love is not cruel, we are cruel. Love is not a game, we made a game of love.

Rupi Kaur

It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Stephen Chbosky

It’s strange how everything can go back to the way it was before as suddenly as it originally changed. And when one thing happens and suddenly everything goes back to normal.

Stephen Chbosky

I don’t think it’s possible to fill an empty space with what you’ve lost. I don’t think our lost pieces fit inside us anymore after they’re lost.

John Green

People accept the love they think they deserve.

Stephen Chbosky

If you are not enough for yourself, you will never be enough for someone else.

Rupi Kaur

People only observe the colors of the day at the beginning and at the end, but to me it is very clear that the day melts through a multitude of hues and intonations with each passing moment.

Markus Zusak

Like almost all suffering, it all started with an apparent happiness.

Markus Zusak

Do not worry, do not rush. What is yours will find a way to get to you. God does not take, he fancies.

Caio Fernando de Abreu

It had given me the silent and constant company of those characters, who didn’t and never had, but somehow made me feel less alone.

Sarah J. Maas

Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are.

Stephen Chbosky

If not today, one day it will be. Some things, as impossible and crazy as they seem, we know, deep down, that they were made to work one day.

Caio Fernando de Abreu

What is stronger than a human heart that breaks again and again and lives on?

Rupi Kaur

She built her home between the pages of books.

Maggie Stiefvater

Can someone steal happiness? Or is she just another infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak

I fell in love the way someone falls asleep: gradually and suddenly, from one moment to the next.

John Green

The boundless spirit is man’s greatest treasure.

J.K. Rowling

There are different types of darkness. There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes. There is the darkness of rest. There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of murderers.

Sarah J. Maas

Every now and then, we remind ourselves that what we think is our greatest weakness can sometimes be our greatest strength. And that the most unlikely person can change the course of history.

Sarah J. Maas

Because the world, despite being round, has many corners.

Caio Fernando de Abreu

You’re like a song I heard when I was a kid but forgot until I heard it again.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes we want what we want even though we know it will kill us. We cannot escape who we are.

Donna Tartt

Who said that coincidence was God’s way of remaining anonymous?

Donna Tartt

No one will ever, ever be able to convince me that life is an amazing and fulfilling thing. Because, this is the truth: life is catastrophe.

Donna Tartt

Truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore it must be treated with great caution.

J.K. Rowling

When death stops to tell a story you have to stop to hear it.

Markus Zusak

We must try not to succumb under the weight of our anguish, and continue to fight.

J.K. Rowling

I can survive quite well on my own—if I am provided with the proper reading material.

Sarah J. Maas

We’re all devastated. In our own way, and in places no one may see.

Sarah J. Maas

Libraries are full of ideas, perhaps the most powerful and dangerous of all weapons

Sarah J. Maas

I had to leave, I was tired of letting you make me feel anything but whole.

Rupi Kaur

Beauty is terror. We are agitated by all that we call beautiful.

Donna Tartt

People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to deserve cruelty.

Maggie Stiefvater

I could never stop thinking that maybe she liked a mystery so much that she ended up becoming one.

John Green

I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you. I left because the longer I stayed, the less I loved myself.

Rupi Kaur

It’s not what we left behind that breaks me, it’s what we could have built if we stayed.

Rupi Kaur

Not everyone who comes into your life comes with the intention of staying. In the same way that not everyone who left wanted to leave

John Green

My thoughts are stars that I can’t arrange into constellations.

John Green

There was kindness in people, deep down, there was always a shred of kindness. There had to be.

Sarah J. Maas

So if this is my last letter, please believe that I’m fine, and even when I’m not, it’ll be fine soon after. And I believe it is the same for you too. Love, Charlie.

Stephen Chbosky

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to enjoy every moment.

Lauren Kate

With great power comes a great need to take a nap, wake me up later.

Rick Riordan

She doesn’t say anything, just looks up at the dark sky, and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Neil Gaiman

You are so busy being yourself that you have no idea how utterly unique you are.

John Green

No amount of time with you would be enough. But let’s start with forever.

Stephenie Meyer