Or scenes whatever. I saw that somebody had posted a "what are your favorite movie quotes" and I couldn't think of any...but I can remember some of my favorite quotes from books! So I wanna hear which are your favs! Some of mine 🙂

Desert Notes
"One morning as I stood watching the sun rise, washing out the blue black, watching the crystalline stars fade, my bare legs quivering in the cool air, I noticed my hands had begun to crack and turn to dust."

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end, love doesn't."
🙁 So sad but so beautiful

Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Short story-lots from here too!)
"Then she looked at me. I thought that she was looking at me for the first time. But then, when she turned around behind the lamp and I kept feeling her slippery and oily look in back of me, over my shoulder, I understood that it was I who was looking at her for the first time."

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
"If you knew what was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. Drowned now-the tree as well, the sky, the wind, the clouds. All she has left is the picture. Also the story of it. The picture is of happiness, the story not. Happiness if a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
"'Isn't it ironic, Richard Parker? We're in hell yet we're still afraid of immortality.'" XD Oh Richard Parker...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"(I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo)"

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery
"'And all day long he says over ang over, just like you, 'I'm a serious man! I'm a serious man!' And that puffs him up with pride. But he's not a man at all-he's a mushroom!' 'He's a what?' 'A mushroom!' The little prince was now quite pale with rage." 😀

"'If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars. He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?'"

mine is like a whole monologue...

Wintergirls
*Food is life. I have no idea how much I weigh. This scares me almost to death, but I'm working on it. I'm beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness. Cassie did, too. We leaned on each other, lost in the dark and wandering in endless circles. She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.

I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape. There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I am thawing.*

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Incredibly haunting and atmospheric, finishes the story off perfectly too.

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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Incredibly haunting and atmospheric, finishes the story off perfectly too.

Oh goodness, I just read that recently. Just curious, but what is your take on light and dark?

Crime and Punishment

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.

I continue to believe that the opening line of Anna Karenina is one of the most potent ever penned: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Then there's this segment from If on a winter's night a traveler:
"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times the story could end in only two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, and the inevitability of death."

Calvino's so brilliant... I can scarcely think of a better way to end a novel of incomplete stories.

On that note, essentially all of Invisible Cities is quotable... Euphemia (trading cities 1) remains my favorite:

[Snipped for length related reasons]
You do not come to Euphemia only to buy and sell, but also because at night, by the fires all around the market, seated on sacks or barrels or stretched out on piles of carpets, at each word that one man says -- such as "wolf", "sister", "hidden treasure", "battle", "scabies", "lovers" -- the others tell, each one, his tale of wolves, sisters, treasures, scabies, lovers, battles. And you know that in the long journey ahead of you, when to keep awake against the camel's swaying or the junk's rocking, you start summoning up your memories one by one, your wolf will have become another wolf, your sister a different sister, your battle other battles, on your return from Euphemia, the city where memory is traded at every solstice and at every equinox.

I could go on for a while, but I'll cut off here before I start throwing Borges or Hagiwara into the mix.

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One on my favorite quotes is from Albert Camus book The Plague.
While the character Rieux is leaving a church sermon he overhears two priests having a conversation about the power and meaning of the sermon and one says

"It's Illogical for a priest to call a doctor"

I always thought that this quote kind of showed the hypocrisy of religion and Camus was always great at describing the absurdness of the world.

" 9 years and 163 days later, 2% of my body cells are still in love with her"

Kurt Vonnegut
"Dance Like No One is Watching...
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before...
Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money."

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things."

Jesus once said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's". Which Bokonon paraphrased, "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on."

"The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic, with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution."

Ayn Rand
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

[color=#ff0000]"“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world!
Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” "[/color]

Quote from Calíbre

Kurt Vonnegut
"Dance Like No One is Watching...
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before...
Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money."

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things."

Jesus once said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's". Which Bokonon paraphrased, "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on."

"The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic, with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution."

Ayn Rand
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

What a remarkably ideologically conflicted pairing.

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What a remarkably ideologically conflicted pairing.

Yea, some are pretty deep. Some are just funny.

[color=#ff0000]"“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world!
Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” "[/color]

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I continue to believe that the opening line of Anna Karenina is one of the most potent ever penned: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Then there's this segment from If on a winter's night a traveler:
"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times the story could end in only two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, and the inevitability of death."

Calvino's so brilliant... I can scarcely think of a better way to end a novel of incomplete stories.

On that note, essentially all of Invisible Cities is quotable... Euphemia (trading cities 1) remains my favorite:

[Snipped for length related reasons]
You do not come to Euphemia only to buy and sell, but also because at night, by the fires all around the market, seated on sacks or barrels or stretched out on piles of carpets, at each word that one man says -- such as "wolf", "sister", "hidden treasure", "battle", "scabies", "lovers" -- the others tell, each one, his tale of wolves, sisters, treasures, scabies, lovers, battles. And you know that in the long journey ahead of you, when to keep awake against the camel's swaying or the junk's rocking, you start summoning up your memories one by one, your wolf will have become another wolf, your sister a different sister, your battle other battles, on your return from Euphemia, the city where memory is traded at every solstice and at every equinox.

I could go on for a while, but I'll cut off here before I start throwing Borges or Hagiwara into the mix.

I love that line too! I love how that one first sentence captures the plot without giving it away. I've been meaning to read Invisible Cities, its on my list of books to read. I will move it to the top of the list as of immediately

Oooh I have a couple...

This is Where I Leave You
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Stargirl
The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

Life of Pi
To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you.

Good Omens
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Go to work, send your kids to school;
Follow fashion, act normal;
Walk on the pavement, watch T.V.;
Save for retirement, obey the law.
Repeat after me: I am free.

Forgot where I read this but

Gold for the merchant, silver for the maid;
Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade.
"Good!" laughed the king, sitting in his hall.
"But iron—cold iron—shall be master of them all."

If you're old enough....

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"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
From Macbeth

With fifty patches painted on faces and limbs—so sat ye there to mine astonishment, ye present-day men!
And with fifty mirrors around you, which flattered your play of colours, and repeated it!
Verily, ye could wear no better masks, ye present-day men, than your own faces! Who could—RECOGNISE you!
Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new characters—thus have ye concealed yourselves well from all decipherers!
And though one be a trier of the reins, who still believeth that ye have reins! Out of colours ye seem to be baked, and out of glued scraps.
All times and peoples gaze divers-coloured out of your veils; all customs and beliefs speak divers-coloured out of your gestures.
He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows.
Verily, I myself am the scared crow that once saw you naked, and without paint; and I flew away when the skeleton ogled at me.

Zarathustra