Nothing is more important than your favorite book. From the characters you fall in love with to the words that continue speaking to you even after you put the book down, the right book can stay with you forever. These magical words end up taking over your life, covering your walls, captions on social media, and some permanently etched on your body. Whatever the words, they stick with you through the darkest and brightest of times. Without further adieu, here are my top ten favorite book quotes of all time!

“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
―J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door… Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over”
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”
–Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Believing takes practice.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“We all can dance,” he said, “if we find the music that we love.”

– Giles Andreae, Giraffes Can’t Dance