Whats your favorite book quote?

hollyeverhart

I saw a post for movies, but I am a huge bookworm, so I figured I would start one for books!

My favorite is: "If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible" Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters I have it tattooed on my forearm along with the book cover!

Also
"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
Chuck Palahniuk

lastly!
"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens."
Chuck Palahniuk

If you couldn't tell he is my favorite author ever.

denisey94

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
Sarah Dessen

bpurc22

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever” - MY FAVORITE

Such a good book..

Iamkim73

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

I loved this book as a kid... And this quote has stuck with me all this time.

Tofteberg

why sometimes I believe six impossible things before breakfast. Alice in Wonderland

terrellc1

"And they eat corn!"
-Naked

MirelaH

No joke this quote changed my life!

“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

clydethecat

"i swear by my life and my love of it, to never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine"

annamolly22

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
Sarah Dessen

LOVE Sarah Dessen. I try to get my students to read as many of her books as possible.

My favorite quotes:

"'I love you,' Buttercup said. "I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours how, and every second more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but half hour after that I knew that what I felt was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minute after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm. Your eyes are like that, did you know? Well they are.'"

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”

William Goldman

wildiriss

OOOh I like this topic!

I have a few, and all of them are Jane Austen. :P

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." - from Pride & Prejudice

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me." - Pride & Prejudice

"They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects." - Pride & Prejudice

terrellc1

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

Allie_71

Can I do two? Please?

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."
Chuck Pahlaniuk

"Eroticize intelligence."
Douglas Coupland

MindyBlack

From Jane Eyre

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me when I was sane, not mad - as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth - so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane - quite insane, with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations are all I have at this hour to stand; there I plant my foot.”
― Charlotte Brontë

From Pride & Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

From A Christmas Carol
“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
― Charles ****ens, A Christmas Carol

“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”
― C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters

sunkisses

From Sandra Cisneros "House on Mango Street"

"I have begun my own quiet war."

"People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars, they forget those of us who live too much on earth."

"You can't erase what you know; you can't forget who you are."

"She doesn't need anybody to laugh with. She just laughs."

From Lucille Clifton's poem "Homage to My Hips"

these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top

hollyeverhart

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

I really like this!

hollyeverhart

Can I do two? Please?

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."
Chuck Pahlaniuk

"Eroticize intelligence."
Douglas Coupland

Post as many as you like! I love good quotes, maybe I can find a new author to check out

Captain_Mal

One of my favorite quotes in general.

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

WAHughes

Let me give you some advice, *kitten*: Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.-Tyrion Lannister A Game of Thrones

missbethea

My favorite quote comes from a book that I can't even remember the name of.

"The abuse I can handle, it's the happiness that cripples me."

Talking about how even though the girl was abused, that's not what ruined her life- it was remembering the happiness she had with the abuser. And how that was the debilitating part. That quote has always wrenched my heart.

miss_missa07

From a book, my favorite line is probably:
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."
It's from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

I do read more poetry than I do books, though, and (although I have many), some of my favorite lines are:

Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

-"Grass" by Carl Sandburg


Human fear and the rules of grammar demand -and-
to suggest something comes after.
-"Religion" by Kevin Stein