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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:23 pm
BOOK QUOTES
"Share your favorite quotes!"
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:25 pm
"Money is never wasted when buying books."
-Jenna Bates
"Love is the water of life, drink deeply."
-The Alchemyst
"Nothing is as it seems, question everything."
-Unknown
"After what she done my foot! I tell you a sesson, Kerry, most important lesson life learn me. Onest you loves a person, that don't just die...Everyone you ever love, anyone who ever love you, lay a light like a canopy on your soul. Your soul, it fasten up that canopy, one on another, and you can turn youself away, you maybe convers them with time or anger. You can close your eye to it, but when you opens them the light still there. The light still there and still you shine. That there's how it works to be human. The love become a part of you."
-Piece's Of My Sister's Life
"Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself the things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
- The Shadow Of The Wind
"A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside."
- The Shadow Of The Wind
"There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence."
- Gaston Berger
"Know that the purpose of families, in the eyes of the morninglord at least, is to make each generation a little better than the one before: stronger, perhaps, or wiser, richer, or more capable. Some folks manage one of these aims; the best and most fortunate manage more than one. That is the task of parents."
-The Annotated Elminister
"Not what you do, but how you do what you do, determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny."
- Eckhart Tolle
"The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence, it is greener where it is watered."
-Back On Blossom Street
"If you're thinking about pleasing someone else when you're writing, you start failing as a writer."
-Spencer Chamberlain
"Nothing worth learning can ever be taught."
-Unknown
"The only crime worse than burning books is not reading them."
-Unknown
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:18 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: NESTING COMMENTS
Well, they're no where near as deep as Meesh's guotes, but here are some from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. icon_wink.gif
Aziraphale: "Watch out for that pedestrian!"
Crowley: "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!"
"Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"
There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and who is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, "Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it's running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they'll be quite strong terrorists. Perhaps you'd like to ring them up, sir, and ask them questions in that supercilious, accusatory way of yours."
Interviewer: "But you said the power station is still producing electricity."
Spokesman: "It is."
Interviewer: "How can it still be doing that if it hasn't got any reactors?"
Spokesman: "We don't know. We were hoping you clever buggers at the BBC would have an idea."
Crowley: "All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that."
Aziraphale: "Terrible."
Crowley: "Nothing left but dust and fundamentalists."
Aziraphale: "That was nasty."
Crowley: "Sorry. Couldn't resist it."
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water-filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. [Footnote: Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable than it's given credit for, it does not have a large plastic snowman at the bottom.]
Big Ted: "You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from, then?"
Death: REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.
Pollution: "Verses two to eight."
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
Crowley was in Hell's bad books. [Footnote: Not that Hell has any other kind.]
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:19 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: SEMI SUICIDAL
I am no coward, but i am no heroine in a song, and no fool either. ~Jebra (Sword of Truth)
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the begining of reality. ~Dom Helder Camara
I am dead! Only vengence can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me! ~Kahlan Amnel (sword of truth)
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:20 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: AWHOLELOTTA BANG
Quotes from The Perks of being a Wallflower:
"It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book."
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
"... And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
"I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
"I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica."
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:21 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: JUICY KOBOLD
"Those who have come here to hate should leave now, for in their hatred they only betray themselves."
In Confessor by Terry Goodkind.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:22 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: SHADOWROSE96
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
-Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar"
-Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
"A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight."
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:22 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: X--STEVIE--X
i know this is a little long and that its from a short story not a book but i still love it and this is my favorite part!
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!"
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!"
But to these words I hearkened in vain for a reply. I grew impatient. I called aloud --
"Fortunato!"
No answer. I called again --
"Fortunato!"
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick -- on account of the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I reerected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.
In pace requiescat!
from "the cask of amontillado" by edgar allan poe
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:23 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: Ririn-the-modsoul
"In The Morning You Should Think
You Might Not Last Unto The Night
In The Evening You Should Think
You Might Not Last Unto The Morn
So Dance, My Dears, Dance
Before You Take The Dark Flight Down"
From 'The Book Of Dead Days' and 'The Dark Flight Down' both by Marcus Sedgwick
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:24 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: BIYANKA
"He goes to the barber shop for an oil change, not a haircut."
"I wish I was a little kid again, where I had all the answers."
"You're my brand of heroin."
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:25 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: DREAMINGARIA
Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love. - George MacDonald Phantastes
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:26 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: MURPHYREADS
He kissed her he killed her he dumped her body in the river
-Ender's Shadow
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:28 am
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: LYRA ELIZABETH
The "to be or not to be" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of my favorites.
"To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:30 pm
"It is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done." - Adverbs by Daniel Handler
Such a strange book, but I love that quote.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:16 am
"I wish I was a kid again, where I had all the answers." - S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now.
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