What parts of or lines from books do you identity with?

[Kalim8]

I'm reading "gangsta granny" & I totally identify with granny's "blow offs" sounding like a duck quacking, for once one of mine did, and dd (then a toddler) squealed "ducky!" in delight, although it was the middle of the night and we were obviously not near a duck pond.

To elevate the tone a little, I read Candide when I was a student (during the previous century) & there were loads of lines that matched in-jokes with a student society. Can't remember any of them now.

Have you ever read anything that you identify with?

I made a little scrapbook for DP when we first got together, with quotes and song lyrics etc and pictures/photos.

This quote from a John Green book struck me. Along with some lyrics from the XX.

In case you can’t read it, as the photo is a bit dark:

“He’s become the one the songs are about, and while part of me knows he’s probably worth that, another part is yelling at me to slow the fuck down” John Green, from Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” - Terry Pratchett

For now though, possibly the most apt quote ever is another from Douglas Adams: “ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Anne of green gables.. Something about
Tomorrow having no mistakes in it yet... Its the yet part for me.. I always fuck up somehow, say something that falls out my mouth, try to be funny.. Do something in work thats just shit.. Luckily I work in a SEN school and shit happens a lot so it's OK for lessons not to go as planned like a giraffe looking more like a kangaroo because firstly I can't draw and secondly I can't draw whilst holding the paper facing the kids on the floor so I'm drawing it upside down... Gotta laugh