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

[ClawsandEffect]

Better never means better for everyone.

Unsex me here.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do

This one is driving me mad as I know I’ve sobbed through that last chapter! Is it I capture the castle?

if I'm walking ahead and have to shout “Come on!” I always think of Tigger.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

After all.. tomorrow is another day

Gone with the wind

Rebecca

Wrong way around!

@CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan, indeed it is!

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. 💔

”The whole thing started when Uncle Parker…”

”Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

“One is young for so little a time.”

I Capture the Castle. One of my favourite books.

Dr Spock - Baby and Child Care. The childcare bible of my mother’s generation!

@OctoberaddsagaleWindandslushandrainandhail , yours is Macbeth, and yes, my last one was Dante, Inferno.

“We take all labour for our province.

From the judge's seat to the legislator's chair; from the statesman's closet to the merchant's office; from the chemist's laboratory to the astronomer's tower, there is no post or form of toil for which it is not our intention to attempt to fit ourselves; and there is no closed door we do not intend to force open; and there is no fruit in the garden of knowledge it is not our determination to eat.”

It is! I read it aloud to my kids, and there were several places where I couldn't speak through the tears. I love it so much.

'Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self neglecting'
Henry V Shakespeare

Dylan Thomas

Brightness falls from the air

Don’t let evil enter your heart, it will make a home there.

Is that A Vindication of the Rights of Women?

“(picnic, lightning)”

The Wasteland?

It's such a brilliant book.

Rebecca - du Maurier

Bloody hell, that's a good one. I don't remember it (and I was in Henry V at school!)

For the upcoming season, this site is great if you love this kind of thing https://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/

Saki, I think the story is Tobermory

👍

Done because we are too menny.

"Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered."