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"

Also

“Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.”

The Blue Castle

‘On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps...’
PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves.

"....in that enchanted place on top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing."

@Lottielady - that made me laugh out loud! So many magnificent quotes from the Jeeves& Worcester books

Dutch1e Yes! That saga is one of the most consuming reads (often returned to!) I ever lived (was bereft when I finished it!)

‘Good-bye, Mrs Bartholemew," said tom, shaking hands with stiff politeness; "and thank you very much for having me."
"I shall look forward to our meeting again," said Mrs Bartholemew, equally primly.
Tom went slowly down the attic stairs. Then, at the bottom, he hesitated: he turned impulsively and ran up again - two at a time - to where Hatty Bartholemew still stood...
Afterwards, Aunt Gwen tried to describe to her husband that second parting between them. "He ran up to her, and they hugged each other as if they had known each other for years and years, instead of only having met for the first time this morning. There was something else, too, Alan, although I know you'll say it sounds even more absurd...Of course, Mrs Bartholemew's such a shrunken little old woman, she's hardly bigger than Tom; anyway: but, you know, he put his arms right round her and he hugged her good-bye as if she were a little girl.’
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

I love these! Great thread, OP.

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is mere appendix"

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!
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Sharon K Penman
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When I look at my dds growing up and my dps getting older^^

Nolite des bastardes Carborundorum
The Handmaids Tale

'I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed'

What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nanna came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

The Velveteen Rabbit - Marjory Williams.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
It eluded us then, but that’s no matter
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....
And one fine morning...

“Will you please call me Cordelia?”

“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Opening lines of Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
My favourite ever book;
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

‘Not all those who wander are lost.’

JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

Clawdy, I'm on a clapped out old system, but if I could insert heart emojis, I would x 3

“You are your best thing.”
—Beloved by Toni Morrison

‘Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it’
Roald Dahl

"Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy." - Diary of Anne Frank.

I have it on my fridge door, to remind me every day to see beauty in simplicity.

'Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.'
Wuthering Heights. Not the most cheerful, but I love it!

@lottielady I have that as a tattoo! Absolutely an amazing quote!

"It can't be all dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile when they take you down".

Seanan McGuire- Rosemary and Rue (Toby Daye series)

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”