<p>I just finished the book Alice in Wonderland-- and I'm in love.
It's just so completely ingenious, thought provoking and light hearted. I had no trouble reading it in a day and yet find myself trying to sneak back to read it again instead of the Russian novels I'm trying to get through (Leo Tolstoy).
So I was taking a break to watch some Buffy when i got to thinking about the book itself.
This lead me to pull up the book itself to find the highlighted quotes. In conclusion, I'm curious what is your favorite book quote? Be it a classic or merely a YA fluff.
Mine is:
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."</p>
<p>“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.” from Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk</p>
<p>This is going to be a long list, because I like books. </p>
<p>“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, those who live without love.” — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling</p>
<p>“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’ Say rather, ‘I have found the soul walking upon my path.’ For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.” — The Prophet by Khalil Gibran </p>
<p>"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families…re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman</p>
<p>“It’s easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.”
“So what’s something?”
“Being reliable is something. Being good.” - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer </p>
<p>I’m not a religious person, but I really love this quote:
“For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took Me in. I was naked, and you clothed Me. I was sick, and you took care of Me. I was in prison, and you visited Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or without clothes and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and visit You?’ And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’” — Matthew 25:35-40</p>
<p>“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” - 1984 by George Orwell.</p>
<p>I’m going to stop there before I go on forever.</p>
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That description of Cleveland is entirely too accurate.</p>
<p>^
I only know a handful of those books and I’m ever so glad I do.
I adore not knowing books because that means I have more to read and if I hadn’t pledged myself to finishing a book every three days (most of which are classics and russian novels and ect) I’d read all of the above :P</p>
<p>Most of my favorite quotes either came from the Bible or from My Sister’s Keeper, so it’s hard to name one :D. But, here’s a favorite of mine:</p>
<p>“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.” -My Sister’s Keeper</p>
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That was from Leaves of Grass, I forgot to say. It’s an absolutely beautiful book.</p>
<p>oh gosh… I have so many books to look up now 
some of these are amazing</p>
<p>“I sought my soul
But my soul I could not see
I sought my God
But my God eluded me
I sought my brother
And I found all three”</p>
<p>It’s a quote from Chicken Noodle Soup for the Teenage Soul. I don’t like most of the stories, but there are a few nice ones. :)</p>
<p>“A Small Theory
People observe the colours of the day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colours. Waxy yellows, clould-spat bles, murky darknesses. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
“A Last Note From Your Narrator
I am haunted by humans.”
-Death, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak</p>
<p>I love that book so much, and there are so many good quotes!</p>
<p>“not my daughter you *#@%$!”</p>
<p>A few from TCITR: I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.</p>
<p>[“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.]</p>
<p>[What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.]</p>
<p>[That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.]</p>
<p>[In the first place, I’m sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor ■■■■■■■. ]</p>
<pre><code>[Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even newer. I don’t even like old cars. I mean they don’t even interest me. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.]
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<p>[ “If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you dont watch it, you start showing off. And then youre not as good any more.” (This quote is especially relevant to CC)]</p>
<p>[The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a ■■■■■■■ he is, they’ll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don’t like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they’ll say he’s conceited. Even smart girls do it.]</p>
<p>[These intellectual guys don’t like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they’re running the whole thing. They always want you to shut up when they shut up, and go back to your room when they go back to their room.]</p>
<p>[Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. ] ~Mr. Antolini</p>
<p>[That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “**** you” right under your nose.]</p>
<p>With the exception of one, all of the above quotes are from Holden Caulfield, a really well developed character written by J.D Salinger.</p>
<p>“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.” - The Outsiders</p>
<p>“Real or not real? Real.” - The Hunger Games </p>
<p>“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” - Angela’s Ashes</p>
<p>“You never really understand someone until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” - To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>“I am very calm. Let the months come, and the years, they’ll take nothing more from me, they can take nothing more from me. I am so alone and so devoid of any hope that I can confront them without fear. Life, which carried me through these years, is still there in my hands and in my eyes. Whether or not I have mastered it, I do not know. But as long as life is there it will make its own way, whether my conscious self likes it or not.
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He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so still and quiet along the entire front line that the army despatches restricted themselves to the single sentence; that there was nothing new to report on the western front.
He had sunk forwards and was lying on the ground as if asleep. When they turned him over, you could see that he could not have suffered long - his face wore an expression that was so composed that it looked as if he were almost happy that it had turned out that way.”
Still makes me cry every time :’(</p>
<p>All Quiet on the Western Front/Im Westen nichts Neues, Erich Maria Remarque
Not a huge fan of this translation, but it was the only one I could find</p>
<p>What are men compared to rocks or mountains? - Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live”
- Albus Dumbledore</p>
<p>Well, if we’re going to talk about quotes that makes us sad.</p>
<p>“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.” - Everything is Illuminated, Johnathan Safran Foer</p>
<p>I just re-read this book, it’s so beautiful. Here’s another one from it.</p>
<p>“The dream that we are our fathers:
I walked to the Brod, without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in the water. I couldn’t look away. What was the image that pulled me in after it? What was it that I loved? And then I recognized it. So simple. In the water I saw my father’s face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created. We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered—our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure…”</p>
<p>Yay for book quotes!</p>
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<p>I have trouble remembering this one sometimes.</p>