What's your favorite book quote?

[Anonymous]

"As she watched him stand naked in the dim light, she delighted in how very beautiful he was."

[Anonymous]

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:

It comes down to two choices, get busy living or get busy dying.

And, I've forgotten the exact words, but the one about how some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. When you set them free, some part of you rejoices, even though the place you're in is that much more drab without them.
The conflict between wanting what makes you happy, and what's best for others, runs deep.

[Anonymous]

"On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."

[Anonymous]

The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

The Time Machine

"It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of morning"

[Anonymous]

Name of the Wind

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.



Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed

[Anonymous]

"Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. "

"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"
- A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

[Anonymous]

"Why, he scarcely knows my name, let alone what it stands for. It stands for Despair, Bewilderment, Futility, Degradation, and Premeditated Murder, but little does he wot."

--Dorothy Parker, " The Waltz"

[Anonymous]

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. " Catch-22

[Anonymous]

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

- Lord of the Rings

[Anonymous]

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand and Stars"

[Anonymous]

I love a good Dickens description:

"I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:

It comes down to two choices, get busy living or get busy dying.

And, I've forgotten the exact words, but the one about how some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. When you set them free, some part of you rejoices, even though the place you're in is that much more drab without them.
The conflict between wanting what makes you happy, and what's best for others, runs deep.

I love that movie. I like the quote about hope.