With over 130 million published books in the world, there are countless sentences that strike a cord, leaving a lasting impression with the reader. 

In honor of National Book Lovers Day....

We've compiled this hand-picked list of 25 powerful quotes, including lines from classic literature and modern favorites alike, to narrow down the search for that quintessential quote.

Read on, and find the line that speaks to you. We hope you find solace in these impressive sentences!

1. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” 

– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

2. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” 

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

3. “RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision.” 

-Stephen King, Black House

4. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” 

-H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

5. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars

6. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

7. “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a fruit.” 

– Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

8. “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” 

– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

9. “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” 

– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

10. “The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.”

– Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

11. “If we wait until we are ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” 

– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

12. “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

13. “If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something.” 

– Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

14. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” 

– Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

15. “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” 

– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

16. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” 

– Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

17. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.” 

– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

18. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” 

– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

19. “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

– Philip K. Dick, Valis

20. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

– Herman Melville, Moby Dick

21. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” 

– Roald Dahl, The Witches

22. “You are your best thing.”

– Toni Morrison, Beloved

23. “Only when the clock stops does time come to life.” 

– William Faulkner, The Sounds And The Fury

24. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

– Bram Stroker, Dracula

25. "Don't panic." 

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We hope you enjoyed this list! Read on, bookworms, and happy National Book Lovers Day!