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

[ClawsandEffect]

Better never means better for everyone.

Unsex me here.

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy.

Mine is “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.".

Spot on.

Ulysses?

Close @SuperLemonCrush

Love to see The Brothers Lionheart talked about on here. Found that a devastating read when I was a child.

Ulysses is correct. Our reading group is about half way through and we’re enjoying it immensely.

Ah, Prufrock…I often think about measuring my life in teaspoons…

How about “heir to a crumbling summit, a sea of nettles, to an empire of red rust, to rituals’ footprints ankle deep in stone”?

@SuperLemonCrush

teaspoons, Super?

I did that book for A level, badly. I was too young for it.

Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.

T.S.Eliot La Figlia che Piange

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year...

Not a book but a film (but beautifully written)

I always say my West window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

And yes that is a great line @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats

Also from the same

I shot an arrow in the air
She fell to earth in Berkeley Square

😀

DESCRIBE (USING DIAGRAMS WHERE APPROPRIATE) THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO YOUR DEATH.

Reader, I married him.

He is more myself than I am.

The top quote is Jane Eyre.
My quote is: If looks could kill I’d have been in the ambulance.

"Hello clouds, hello sky"

Fotherington-Thomas in How to be Topp?

The Ship is safe in the Harbour, but that's not what Ships are for.

One Day

Edit: ha, no, completely wrong! I misremembered it being quoted in One Day

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I believe

Fotherington-Tomas! I love Molesworth so much 😂 He is so wise:
"The conker was a huge and glosy one like a racehorse but like all racehorses which are huge and glosy they cross their legs and fall into a ditch so do not back them."

Heathcliffe after Cathy dies. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Cried and cried when I read that at the age of 11. Decided that if I had a daughter she would be Catherine and called Cathy. So I had a daughter and yes she is Catherine and called Cathy.

What larks Pip

Time held me green and dying, but I sang in my chains like the sea. - Dylan Thomas

Sorry. I seem to have misunderstood 😂

zaphod inched up the corridor in a way that suggested he would rather be yarding down it.