Top 35 Madeline Martin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t save the world, but keep trying in any small way you can.”

— Madeline Martin

2. “A single bead of water rolled along the length of his spine and glided down the powerful lines of his body. Mariel moistened her lips and watched its seductive descent, overwhelmed with the temptation to trace its path with the tip of her tongue.”

— Madeline Martin

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3. “It doesna matter the direction necessity forces ye to take in life, it matters which way ye go when ye have a choice.”

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4. “She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.”

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5. “There might be loss, and sometimes there may be fear, but there was also courage to face such challenges. For in a world such as theirs, with people of spirit and love, and with so many different tales of strength and victory to inspire, there would always be hope.”

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6. “She smiled through her tears, opened her book and began to read, bringing them all along with her to a world where there were no bombs. There might be loss, and sometimes there may be fear, but there was also courage to face such challenges. For in a world such as theirs, with people of spirit and love, and with so many different tales of strength and victory to inspire, there would always be hope.”

— Madeline Martin

7. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted,” he said, quoting Aesop.”

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8. “We have not to fear anything, except fear itself. Julius Caesar’s quote resounded in.”

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9. “Aristotle once said that patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

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10. “Perhaps that is the draw of books.” James put his hand over hers. “To show us the way even when we think the path is too dark to see.”

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11. “It doesn’t matter how you fight, but that you never, never stop.”

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12. “Books are what have brought us together. A love of the stories within, the adventures they take us on, their glorious distraction in a time of strife.”

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13. “Sometimes the things we hold inside of us need to be let out. No matter where you are or who you’re speaking with.”

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14. “Deeper still was the profound understanding for mankind as she lived in the minds of the characters. Over time, she had found such perspectives made her a more patient person, more accepting of others. If everyone had such an appreciation for their fellow man, perhaps things such as war would not exist.”

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15. “You can’t save the world, but keep trying in any small way you can.” His mouth lifted at the corners in an almost embarrassed smile. “Such as an old man collecting battered and singed books to keep voices alive.” He set his age-spotted hand on hers, its warmth comforting. “Or finding a story to help a young mother forget her pain.” He removed his hand and straightened. “It doesn’t matter how you fight, but that you never, never stop.”

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16. “No one told her finishing the book would leave her so bereft. It was as though she’d said goodbye for the last time to a close friend.”

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17. “It’s going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It’s living a life you weren’t born into and a chance to see everything colored by someone else’s perspective. It’s learning without having to face consequences of failures, and how best to succeed... I think within all of us, there is a void, a gap waiting to be filled by something. For me, that something is books and all their proffered experiences.”

— Madeline Martin

18. “There are many voices Hitler would quiet, especially those who are Jewish.” Mr. Evans slid the new book reverently beside the others. “It is the duty of the rest of the world to ensure they will never be silenced.” He tapped a yellow spine with Almansor in gilt at its top. “‘Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.’ Heinrich Heine isn’t Jewish, but his ideals go against what Hitler believes.”

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19. “There was a special scent to paper and ink, indescribable and unknown to anyone but a true reader. She brought the book to her face, closed her eyes and breathed in that wonderful smell.”

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20. “What she found within was nothing like the texts she’d read in school that offered dry accounts of maths or broken down sentence structures and word formation. No, this book, when finally given the proper attention it deserved, somehow locked her in its grasp and did not once let go.”

— Madeline Martin

21. “Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.”

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22. “But as much as she loved reading the story, no one had prepared her for the end being so bittersweet. No one told her finishing the book would leave her so bereft. It was as though she’d said goodbye for the last time to a close friend.”

— Madeline Martin

23. “The spine, not yet stretched, creaked open, like an ancient door preparing to unveil a secret world.”

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24. “Oh, do stop.” Viv waved her hand. “You know full well we were trying to listen in on you. It was quite rude of you both to speak so softly that we couldn’t hear a word.”

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25. “It whispered to her in the silence, a promise only a book can make to a reader, to offer a journey unique to them, tailored to the path that life had led them.”

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26. “But in a world as damaged and gray as theirs was now, she would take every speck of pleasure where it could be found. And much pleasure was to be had in reading. Grace cherished the adventures she went on through those pages, an escape from exhaustion and bombs and rationing. Deeper still was the profound understanding for mankind as she lived in the minds of the characters.”

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27. “The cacophony of war overhead came nonstop and with such intensity, it was impossible to differentiate one sound from the other. Without her wits about her, she might have surrendered to the flicker of panic racing in her mind with every whistle, every thundering boom that reverberated in her chest. They only made her read all the louder.”

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28. “She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.”

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29. “I think we all hope to be so valiant and pray we never have to find out.”

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30. “Never apologize for feeling.”

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31. “Word after word, page after page, she was pulled deeper into a place she had never experienced and walked in the footsteps of a person she’s never been.”

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32. “Ugliness in a person was not born, but created.”

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33. “It is through books that we can find the greatest hope, he had.”

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34. “But it was true how anger could be used to mask hurt, especially when hurt was such a very vulnerable emotion.”

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35. “Then let me help you.” She led her to a shelf and withdrew Emma, whose humor made it a particular favorite of Grace’s. “This will have you laughing one minute and sighing wistfully the next.”

— Madeline Martin