Geek me up. Your favourite literary quotes? Name the text and add your own.

[ClawsandEffect]

Better never means better for everyone.

Unsex me here.

Ooh . Unsex me here ...is that a speech by Liz Tudor written by Shakespeare?

Revenge is a dish best served cold .

unsex me here

lady Macbeth

the clocks were striking thirteen

Margaret Atwood is the first one.

mine

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

Call me Ishmael

Pratchett, (Thud! I think) for the flamethrower.
Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so.

I was now nearly sick from inanition (Jane Eyre)

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot on the mat (Diary of a Nobody)

I'm an idiot (not a quote, a truth)

Also, Hemingway.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

Dodie Smith ~ I Capture the Castle.

I love this book.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

The Crow Road, Iain Banks

I love this book. It hit my zeitgeist perfectly when it was published.

Moby Dick

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross Yes!

Isn’t it pretty to think so - last line of The Sun Also Rises, I think?

Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this abyss where I can’t find you. Oh, it is unutterable I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

1984. I love that book.

'There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.'

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit Wuthering Heights?

Yes it is!

So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past

Daddy! My Daddy!

I well up every time.

The Great Gatsby?

1. I should have been a pair of ragged claws
   Scuttling across the floors of silent seas

2. humankind cannot bear very much reality

In you, ruby
The pain you wake to is not yours

Railway Children

Yes it’s Gatsby @tobee

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

Mine. "The overflow pipe was the least of their worries."

The Go Between. Love the film too!