Top 200 Fiction Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.”

— Cassandra Clare

52. “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

— Robert Jordan

53. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

54. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

— George R.R. Martin

55. “Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

— George Orwell

56. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.”

— George R.R. Martin

57. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

58. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

59. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

— George R.R. Martin

60. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

— Stephen King

61. “Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

— Terry Pratchett

62. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde

63. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

— John Green

64. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen

65. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

— William Shakespeare

66. “What’s done cannot be undone.”

— William Shakespeare

67. “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

— John Steinbeck

68. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

— William Shakespeare

69. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

70. “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

— Charles Bukowski

71. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling

72. “You can make anything by writing.”

— C. S. Lewis

73. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

— Lemony Snicket

74. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

75. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

76. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King

77. “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

— C. S. Lewis

78. “There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

— Paulo Coelho

79. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

80. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

81. “Big Brother is watching you.”

— George Orwell

82. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

— Anton Chekhov

83. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

84. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

— J.K. Rowling

85. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

86. “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

— William Shakespeare

87. “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”

— Stephen King

88. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

— Joss Whedon

89. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

— Cassandra Clare

90. “The heart was made to be broken.”

— Oscar Wilde

91. “Without literature, life is hell.”

— Charles Bukowski

92. “Fear is the mind-killer.”

— Frank Herbert

93. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

94. “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

— Douglas Adams

95. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

— Douglas Adams

96. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

97. “I defy you, stars.”

— William Shakespeare

98. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

99. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

— Ernest Hemingway

100. “Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”

— George R.R. Martin