The first one is from the red Queen books although it is apt 😛 I loved them too. There is meant to be another coming out next year set after they took over so I hope it’s about little Pax!
“If Chicago was Sandburg’s ‘Broad Shoulders of America’, then Hohman had to be America’s broad rear end.” -From “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd.
I have a few: from “19 Minutes” Jodi Picoult; “There are two ways to be happy; improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” another Jodi Picoult from “House Rules”; You don’t make a friend, It’s not like they come with directions, like you find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Yeah. My boyfriend is crazy about Lord of the Rings. He watches the extended versions of it and The Hobbit constantly. He’s got a huge collection of replicas and memorabilia. And he even has taken on a personification of his favourite character Aragorn. 🙂 He even refers to me as being his Arwen. 🙂
“History is nothing more than the thin thread of what is remembered stretched out over the ocean of what has been forgotten.” From Whiskey & Charlie by Annabel Smith.
From the In Death series by JD Robb, main character – Eve Dallas from Festive in Death, she has a temp misletoe tattoo on her lower back, “Kiss My Ass”
“You are Sanity in an insane world. You are Reason where there isn’t any Reason. Reason to live.” – A Ring of Endless Light Madeleine L’Engle. “And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.” – The Diary of Anne Frank “Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.” – All The Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders “When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.” – All The Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
I could keep going but I’ll be here for 10 years. lolol
A Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice be nice, until its time to stop being nice, then destroy them. Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight (Merry Gentry, #4)
“And I really look like a hallucination. Note my silhouette in the moonlight.” The cat got into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to add something else, but upon being asked to keep silent, replied: “Very well, very well, I’m prepared to be silent. I’ll be a silent hallucination.” Behemoth (Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov)
“Why not? You’ll wed a farmer one day, or small tradesman, and live respectably among your neighbours. Don’t tell them you lived once at Jamaica Inn, and had love made to you by a horse-thief. They’d shut their doors against you. Good-bye, and here’s prosperity to you…Daphne Du Maurier “Jamaica Inn”
No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You’re strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since– on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. ” — Pip to Estella Great Expectations
There’s a chance she will grow into a strong, interesting woman. Every now & then I see a glimmer of intelligence in her eyes. Of course, it could be a reflection. From Mad Girls in Love by Michael Lee West.
Here’s mine <3
yes. Sarah J Maas is Awesome
I agree with you, i Love her novel she’s prettt awesome ^^
Much as I’m not that fond of Sarah J. Maas, I do love that quote.
Im a werewolf, not a golden retriever
I like that.
Its from city of bones 🙂
I thought i read it somewhere. i have not read the others yet.
I love tmi and tid 🙂
I have them all. I will get to them someday. Soon I hope.
Rise as red as the dawn!
Hic sunt leones.
“This is always how the story would end,” he says to me. “Not with your screams. Not with your rage. But with your silence.”
“Order me in,” he said again, and Nora opened her eyes. “Please.”
I would have lived in peace but my enemies brought me war.
Tactics win battles. Strategies win wars.
That’s my favorite book too!
Love Red Rising!❤❤❤
The first one is from the red Queen books although it is apt 😛 I loved them too. There is meant to be another coming out next year set after they took over so I hope it’s about little Pax!
“If Chicago was Sandburg’s ‘Broad Shoulders of America’, then Hohman had to be America’s broad rear end.” -From “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd.
My husband got me a shirt that says that on it! ? ???
Lucky girl. ? ?
I absolutely love this quote. I even have a painting of mine with that quote hanging over my bed.
Awesome, I too have a painting with this quote that I did myself but I bet yours is much better, I was just bored one day and I painted it.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S. Lewis
” I hate to read a new book” G. K. Chesterton ( from F E Sinclaire ” The Pleasures of Not Reading”)
You might enjoy Hazlitt’s essay on reading old books.
@Allan Thank you . I am sure I will !I have collected quite a no of essays on that theme because it’s just what I like too!
I have a few: from “19 Minutes” Jodi Picoult; “There are two ways to be happy; improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” another Jodi Picoult from “House Rules”; You don’t make a friend, It’s not like they come with directions, like you find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
One of my top favorites
I’ve seen this one in House of night series….I love it …and so true ?
“And so we beat on, boats against the current . . . ” – F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“have I gone mad?
I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
You seem a decent fellow, I hate to kill you. You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die
Hello my name is Inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die
The Princess Bride!?
Some Infinities are bigger than other infinities ~Hazel Grace Lancaster (The Fault In our Stars)
“Not all those who wander are lost” (from Lord of the Rings)
I love the Lord of the rings
Yeah. My boyfriend is crazy about Lord of the Rings. He watches the extended versions of it and The Hobbit constantly. He’s got a huge collection of replicas and memorabilia. And he even has taken on a personification of his favourite character Aragorn. 🙂 He even refers to me as being his Arwen. 🙂
“History is nothing more than the thin thread of what is remembered stretched out over the ocean of what has been forgotten.” From Whiskey & Charlie by Annabel Smith.
“Real friends let each other grow up.”
“The laws that lay down… Who should be loved, how and how much”. (The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. )
From the In Death series by JD Robb, main character – Eve Dallas from Festive in Death, she has a temp misletoe tattoo on her lower back, “Kiss My Ass”
“You are Sanity in an insane world. You are Reason where there isn’t any Reason. Reason to live.” – A Ring of Endless Light Madeleine L’Engle.
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.” – The Diary of Anne Frank
“Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.” – All The Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
“When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.” – All The Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
I could keep going but I’ll be here for 10 years. lolol
Broken is not the same as unfixable – Marissa Meyer
A Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice be nice, until its time to stop being nice, then destroy them. Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight (Merry Gentry, #4)
“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.” Anita Blake Vampire Hunter by Laurell K Hamilton ❤❤
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
CS Lewis.
“And I really look like a hallucination. Note my silhouette in the moonlight.”
The cat got into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to add something else, but upon being asked to keep silent, replied:
“Very well, very well, I’m prepared to be silent. I’ll be a silent hallucination.” Behemoth (Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov)
The more man learned, the more he realised he did not know. (The lost symbol by Dan Brown)
Sleep that knits up the ravel’d sleave of care,….Macbeth
“I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
-Jean Louise “Scout” Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mine goes something like “The art of writing is learning to adhere the seat of your butt to the chair.”
” And if you put words on paper, you’re a writer. It’s as simple—and as obvious—as that”.-Scot Edelstein.
“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”- Maybe Someday by CoHo
That’s never been my life, nor ever will.”
“Why not? You’ll wed a farmer one day, or small tradesman, and live respectably among your neighbours. Don’t tell them you lived once at Jamaica Inn, and had love made to you by a horse-thief. They’d shut their doors against you. Good-bye, and here’s prosperity to you…Daphne Du Maurier “Jamaica Inn”
Hawkeyes to Cora in “Last of The Mohicans”
No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You’re strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
Movie quote—but still! A great movie!? (The book was still better, of course, but only just!)
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since– on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets.
You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. ” — Pip to Estella
Great Expectations
“There’s no pain and no pleasure, simply degrees of intensity.”
“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted” – From UGLY LOVE
Whenever You Find Yourself On The Side Of The Majority. It Is Time To Pause And Reflect- Mark Twain.
There’s a chance she will grow into a strong, interesting woman. Every now & then I see a glimmer of intelligence in her eyes. Of course, it could be a reflection. From Mad Girls in Love by Michael Lee West.
You look like you been whipped thru hell with a buzzard gut…From Nora Nora by Anne River Siddons
Not all who wander are lost. From the Hobbit.
You bring out the best in me.The best of me by Nicholas Sparks.