This is one of the best quotes from one of the best books in the whole history of the universe. 

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

― William Goldman, The Princess Bride 

I love the picture this quote evokes:

”At last they reached the crest of the gray hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn.”  — from The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R.Tolkien

This one is from a book in my favorite series:

”His elder brother John had said only that morning that steamships were just engines in tin boxes.” — Swallows and Amazons, The Swallows and Amazons Series, by Arthur Ransome

These quotes are from Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy Strange:

”I knew that the ancient magic of our cliffs was real and present and that I was destined— somehow—to become part of the legend too.” 

“Mags suddenly locked her eyes upon him, and I saw that they were as cold as pebbles.  'You threatened my sister?' she whispered.”

This last quote is from a sad but beautiful book:

””You don’t have to be brave”, he says, real quiet.  “Neither of us does.  A man’s life is not so much about courage.  You just have to keep going.  You have to do what you’ve promised, brave or not.””

What book is this last one from? 

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"It was there he found the paper falcon, hanging like an ornament in the yew bush." ~ The Girl who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

"And there the snake throws her enameled skin, / Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in." ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare  

"You almost got eaten by a bear!" ~ The Guilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (I highly recommend this book if you haven't read it. It is AMAZING.) 

"We're weaving in between trees, careful not to disturb, on a mission. We mean no trouble. There are so many of us, the lonely souls. All of us who helped build this. Those who will watch it grow. Those we've lost. We march on together. Climbing, falling, soaring. Trying to get closer to the center of everything. Closer to oursleves. Closer to each other. Closer to something true."

"Better to burn out, right, than fade away?"

"Where are they, exactly, those stars? They're gone, but still here. Extinguished, but burning bright. A contradiction. How can that be? Maybe I'm like those stars now. I have a place in this universe, just not here anymore. How does it still end up this way? I try to follow how it happens, all of it. Still, I can't begin to understand."

"A vision. Staring into the mix of light and night, I see a vision. It's the same vision I've had before, a story I've told, one that became real to me and everyone, and somehow still feels real now, though it's not."

~All from Dear Evan Hansen (the novel) by Val Emmich (with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul) 

"Besides, refusing to conform is conforming to nonconformity, which is still conformity. So why not conform directly to conformity?"

-Not-So-Normal-Norbert, by James Patterson

This one scares me...but I love it because of how much it makes me think. 

"They were mothers and fathers and children.  A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge.  And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake."