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

[ClawsandEffect]

Better never means better for everyone.

Unsex me here.

More Saki fans!- Tobermory is one of my favourite stories

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on
Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line
Nor all they tears wash out a word of it.

Having writ! Bl**dy autocorrect!

We had a friend who was reading Moby Dick while about to give birth. She did as she was told and called the baby Ishmael.

I first read this book as a child, over 30 years ago. This still sticks with me as one of the strongest opening lines I’ve ever come across:

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

Great Expectations

@TrickyD That’s cute. Cool name too

"For those who like that sort of thing...That is the sort of thing they like."

'Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you'

I Capture the Castle- Dodie Smith

'And pluck, till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun.'

Lord of the Flies. "...the darkness of a man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" 😥

And my addition: "Midway through the journey of our life I found myself in a dark forest"

"For those who like that sort of thing...That is the sort of thing they like."

That's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- VeryQuaintIrene love that book.

Here's mine:

'No More Twist'

That last one is Three Men In A Boat - I often quote that at DH because he's a hypochondriac!

That has to be Hitchhiker's Guide?

The Wolves are Running....
But Time, Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man

'Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London'

and…a different book.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

I never dared to read it to my kids. They would have cried their eyes out. I suppose we were more stoic back in the days.. I still remember how beautiful it was when Jonathan saved his brother. And how the sick kid noticed thought that everyone thought that he was the one who should have died.. I read it and also listened to the audiobook with the actors' voices over and over again...

Day of the Triffids?

The Box of Delights.

The Tailor of Gloucester. Beautiful book.

I’m going to write mine again as I don’t think anyone identified it upthread:

‘The primroses were over.’

AA Milne didn’t write the first quote although it’s widely attributed to him. It’s from the Disney film.

DD1 was less emotional than I was, tbh. She is made of sterner stuff than I am. And distracted by her weeping mother too, I suppose 🙈 I should make the time to read it with DD2...

Watership Down

He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life, which is a form of slow suicide.

It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend [redacted] was distinguished.

Ohhhh, that's so familiar but I can't place it. The silver apples and the golden apples!

Another one from me!
"I don't know what's up there, and I don't care."