Tell me the best line / quote from a book that has stuck with you
Tell me the best line / quote from a book that has stuck with you
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Tell me the best line / quote from a book that has stuck with you
There’s a lot but the one that popped in my head for this was:”thus was my introduction to Melisande Shahrizai, with a mind as subtle as delaunay’s, and a far colder heart.”
Love kushiels legacy
Me to. ^^
Another favorite quote is Delaunay ‘s about making Phaedra a instrument princes would be moved to play music on
“Hey Boo”.
Don’t wear your wishbone where your backbone outta be- EPL♥️
@Ashley this is gooood
@Ashley yessssssss!
Here is a line I will never forget.
“As a leader you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow. “
Boundaries for leaders
Dr. Henry Cloud
“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. ‘Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own… always comes home to you.” – Pet Sematary Stephen King.
“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else”
@Spaulding is that November 9 Colleen Hoover? Loved that book
@Roslyn yesss!!
“I’m your huckleberry “
So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.
“Down is a lot easier than up.” 12 rules for life
Thou Mayest, Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Hey, Boo. To Kill a Mockingbird
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission”. A line in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s book Acheron.
“The gods make kings, fools and pawns of us all…in equal turn, but not in equal length.” Another Sherrilyn Kenyon novel, Styxx this time. This is the quote at the beginning of the book.
@Amber
Check out author Marie moning she does some fairy series that is terrific
Tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it. -Anne of green gables
“Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and trusting that they won’t”.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Or
No one expects a headbutt.
I like them because I’m a pacifist, but also completely honest and sarcastic, so one day someone is gonna actually try to fight me.
“If you’re a bird, I’m a bird”
“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing a mistake deserves is forgiveness”
The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
@Crystal my husband has part of that quote as a tattoo
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before. -Huck Finn
@Neil One of my favourites
I loved her enough to hate her… In Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney… I love that line!
The measure of my hatred is that of my love, they are the same.
I read Of Mice and Men for the first time a day after losing my Aunt, once I read this quote i never forgot it….pretty sure it’s written in every notebook I’ve ever owned, it’s nothing profound, pretty simple….but it really clicked for me at that moment.
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a minute”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices” the fault in our stars honestly that book was so well written I fell in love with the words ?
Gone with the wind. Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn!
@Gail mine too
“You’re doing that joking thing right?” Mateo from Alli Sinclair’s underneath the Spanish stars
Stray birds of summer come to my window and fly away.
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. (Lady Chatterly’s Lover)
I don’t give a shit. I don’t take any shit. I’m not in the shit business.
“O God—please give him back! I shall keep asking You.” A Prayer for Owen Meany
Not profound on its own, but in the context of the novel, it still makes me tear up. Like right now.
@Anna – favorite book ever.
@Greta Same. ???
‘She is a peacock in everything but beauty’ Oscar Wilde – The picture of Dorian Gray.
Don’t Panic – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
It is enough I may but call her mine.
“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes,
A farewell is necessary
In order to meet again.
And meeting again
Whether in moments or lifetimes
Is certain for those who are friends”
– Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston seagull
“There isn’t anyone anywhere that isn’t Seymour’s Fat Lady. Don’t you know that? Don’t you know that goddam secret yet? And don’t you know—listen to me, now—don’t you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It’s Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.”
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn ?
“After all, tomorrow is another day!” – Gone With the Wind
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own- Becoming by Michelle Obama
“…and he will be there when Jem wakes in the morning.”
When the day shall come that we do part, if my last words are not ‘I love you’-ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”
@Kacey , Jamie! How I love those books!
@Karen my book husband. He officially stole my heart. ??
@Kacey , yep, you, me, and thousands like us!!
“a hollow, echoing quiet. Made by things that were lacking.” part of the most awesome prologue I’ve ever read, from ‘The Name of the Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss.
You is beautiful!❤️
“The two men looked at each other for a moment… and curtly nodded, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man.” Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove)
@Zoe The Help is such a wonderful book ???
@Caroline my absolute favourite ?
Frankly I don’t give a damn. Gone with the Wind!
@Mary you stole m line!
@Mary my favorite book
@Mary my favorite line of all times!
@Lorie mine too!! Have you ever watched Tombstone? They have great lines also!! I’ll be your huckleberry
But I don’t know how to birth no babies! Gone with the wind
@Mary I say that EVERY time I have an OB call on the ambulance! Lol. (This book nerd finds it funny…)
@Jennifer Me too!
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Their Eyes Were Watching God.
“Either they walk fast or they run slowly, that’s what joggers do. It’s a forty year old man’s way of telling the world that he can’t do anything right.” A Man Called Ove.
I am born
So the quote that has stayed with me for what feels like forever is from a manga/Japanese comic. I know some wouldn’t consider that a book but it is a great quote.
“What I wish for you is not to live long, but to find out what it means to live. In one’s life one will get to meet many, many people. They will give you something and you will give something back in return. All those things will link together and eventually, your fate will change.” Hanatsuki Hime
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
Charlotte’s Web. I cry every time I read it.
@Rachel I’m an emotional wreck tonight and this just set me off the edge. Here come the ugly tears. Thank you for this one. I loved charlottes web
@Tricia
100 people can witness the same event and give 150 different descriptions of it.
Love makes time disappear, time makes love disappear, from the cardinal
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
To honor a great book and to a build that if it could speak could have told more stories than a person could listen to in a single life time.
The that sticks with me today, is because I read it today. “I felt trapped like an insect in amber”.
“ 11 out of 10 mr smarty pants “. The power of one, Bryce courtenay
‘But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.’
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
‘I long for exclamation marks but I am drowning in ellipses.’
Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies.
“Behave like water.”
From Atlas Shrugged
From Atlas Shrugged
“I have romanticised you to the point where the knives you pressed into my skin began to look like cupids arrows.”
― E.J. Wood, Beyond the Pale:
‘The clouds I can handle, but I can’t fight with an eclipse’ ?
One quote ill always remember is.
‘What colour was Millie’s room, Grace?’ ‘Red,’ ‘Millie’s room was red.’ ‘That’s what I thought,’
Chilling!
I really didn’t enjoy For Whom The Bell Tolls but a quote in it stuck with me as both comforting and inspiring
The story of the ugly duckling was never about the cygnet discovering he was lovely. It is not a story about realizing you have become beautiful. It is about the sudden understanding that you are something other than what you thought you were, and that what you are is more beautiful than what you once thought you had to be. — Blanca and Roja by Anna Marie McLemore
‘You have bewitched me mind, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. – mr darcy – pride and prejudice ….. a golden oldie but probably my favourite book of all time.
Also… ‘from this day Elizabeth you are to be a stranger to one of your parents… your mother shall never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins; and I shall never see you again if you do’ – pride and prejudice.
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever”
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
“Stupid to the power of stupid”
Beware of the undertoad
The World According to Garp – John Irving
We accept the love we think we deserve
there is nothing so bad that you can’t make worse by adding guilt to the mix.
Elaine Willoughby I was just going to post this exact line! Lol I love Wuthering Heights it has to be my favourite book, I have this quote in a pendant
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you don’t get the joke
I am now considered too old for early onset dementia. Any dementia I get now is happening right when it is meant to
“I am selfish. I am brave”
Its a far far better thing that i do.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” From Mandela’s book Long Walk to Freedom
“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don’t really exist if you don’t.” – Lolita
“If you aren’t giving then you aren’t living” Tuesdays with Morrie
This is an awesome thread
“Stand up Miss Jean Louise, your father’s passing”
From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Following
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – The Perks of being a Wallflower
I think I shall want you until the day I die♥️
Which book is this please? I love this quote already ❤️
“Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world”.
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The future no man knows. The past has been now and forever – The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
You’re gonna eat shit – from The Help
Read and underlined this line in Sweet Caress by William Boyd last night: “the air was bulky with acronyms.”
Shouldn’t be hard to work out where this one’s from: “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
Actually I just looked it up and the line that comes after is just as good: “People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
People say that nothing is impossible. But I do nothing every day.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
My dear, I don’t give a damn, is the book quote….the frankly was added for the film…one of my favourites ?
Here’s Johnny!
Stay gold
A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it’s mean.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
In Angela Marson’s book where Kim stone asks sex and Doctor Daniel Bate says “not before you’ve bought me dinner” made me giggle so much ???
I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up, my friend
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane
@Karen one of my favorite books of all time ❤️
@Amanda , I loved it too …John is a wonderful writer
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“Come sleep with me: we won’t make love, love will make us.” Cortazar-Rayuela
“There is a reason I do not invite women into my home… they render otherwise reasonable men, irrational and crazy.”
“Frankly Scarlett I don’t give a damn”?
Wish I could remember the book or author but I can’t ?. “It’s better to look for the best in our enemies than the worst in our friends”
“So he murdered someone then wrote a play about it…. Extraordinary lives some people lead” That line still has me in stitches whenever I think of it!!
Nutty as squirrel poo
@Mike
“When you have truly come to know a person, when you see beneath the sweeter gestures, the smiles – when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide – then forgiveness is everything. We are all in desperate need of it”
This has stayed with me since the day I read it
We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses
Mydear, I do not give a damn.
@Catherine Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!
@Neil You got it!
“You’re too pretty to talk so ugly about someone.” The Plantation by Dorthea Benton Frank.