Aibu to ask for your favourite quotes from books

[Ohrobin]

Just that please!

Fav quotes from books and who wrote the book.

Cheers!

Mine is from Winnie the pooh - "how lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard"

I have lots but a particular favourite:

"Perhaps in the passageways of our dreams we meet, more than we know: one white lamplit face astonished by another."

Sorry, by John Updike

"I'll kiss you, if you like"

Henry to Noel, in Pony Club Camp. This remains the paradigm of romanticism for me.

“To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all at the same time. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.” ― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

Stay gold, Ponyboy.

"The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same."

John Milton, Paradise Lost.

It's got me through many a tough time that has (even though it was said by Satan!)

'.....like a hundred thousand people saying 'wop'......'

'....the rap-rod, plate captain....'

(Both from Hitchikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Anything by Sir Terry Pratchett

Ever tried? Ever failed? Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”
“So power is a mummer’s trick?”
“A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
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Every high school kid who’s ever had the heartache of not being the cool kid should be made to read that.

"I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

" Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well."
Diana Gabaldon - Dragonfly in Amber

A love to aspire to.

The closing lines from The Dead (James Joyce)

Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there“

LP Hartley, the go between

It’s a very true sentence if ever there were one.

"for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.” Moby Dick

"After all this time?”
“Always."

I love this

From Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)

"...a mouth on yours; a hand on yours; the ending of the day; the beginning of the day; the feeling that there will always be a day ahead"

Stay gold, Ponyboy

Is that SE Hinton? A blast from the past, if so.

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” Emily Bronte

Gorgeous quotes above!

MitziK - I love Watership Down too, and the ending makes me cry.

Mine are:

Learn The Words (Terry Pratchett)

Time passes, listen.. time passes (Dylan Thomas)

Wearing the Cherry Red lipstick from her youth.

And a really long quote from The Unbearable Likeness Of Being about the essential part of a woman (her cunt, basically).

“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible”.
Harper Lee. - To Kill A Mockingbird

I like "If I once gave way to Peter, I should go up like straw."

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”

From Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome.

A good way to live life (except maybe for the pipes)

"Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"

Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

Mitzik - was going to post the same passage, my favourite book ! ❤️

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,—you’d forget me.”

And

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”

Jane Eyre

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt -Anna Sewell.

MitziK Just lovely, one of my favourite books. I got goosebumps reading that - must read it again soon.

MrsPworkingmummy I agree with your sentiment. I have just finished the 4th book and am thoroughly enjoying them so far.

'Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.' - Pratchett