Two Word Book Quotes

#1. Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?

Lisa Gardner

#2. Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

Ben Marcus

#3. Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie.

Marian Keyes

#4. Stand still ... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles R. Swindoll

#5. Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.

Sarah Brianne

#6. I loved learning about the history of things

Michael Gates Gill

#7. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Cesar Millan

#8. When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Mario Batali

#9. Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#10. Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Lester B. Pearson

#11. The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Samuel Beckett

#12. These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

Stefanos Livos

#13. The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

Tim Hudson

#14. But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder
oh, what will you think of me
if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Dorothy Parker

#15. For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Haruki Murakami

#16. What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.

Ahdaf Soueif

#17. It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

Louis Eliot