Anonymous wrote:Title says it all. What do you find yourself repeating from a book weeks, months, or years later?

That's so lazy. Start with yours.

From Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen, the book Good Omens:

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

Anonymous wrote:“Oh, I don’t read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”

I love this--so DC!

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."

"No one ever promised we wouldn't suffer as we make our way, our expectations are doomed to disappoint."

Why won't we have a parade this Sunday when we don't have a parade every Sunday? Huh?

- Catch-22


What he grasps with one hand he flings away with the other.

- Wuthering Heights (I had to google the source of this quote. It always floats around in my head but I haven’t read Wuthering Heights since high school, so it must have made a deep-brain impression!)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god I don’t believe in for bringing me to you.”


“Those for whom the war is lucrative are rarely satisfied.”


“Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection.”

This one is painful to even read. Must be from a romance novel.

It's not from a romance novel, but there's nothing wrong with romance or making a declaration of love.

Please consider not putting down a genre that brings many people joy and generates $1.5 billion in revenue for the industry (which is hurting for many reasons right now). It's the second most popular genre in fiction and has been growing every quarter for the last few years. Those books are important for tons of publishers and booksellers. Romance readers have been quick to embrace diversity and representation (even if the RWA trade group has been slow to join in). /tedtalk

"There now appeared the Fairy of Paradise. Her raiment was resplendent as the sun, and her face wore a smile like that of a glad mother who is happy on account of her child."

The Garden of Paradise - Hans Christian Andersen

Anonymous wrote:“You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god I don’t believe in for bringing me to you.”


“Those for whom the war is lucrative are rarely satisfied.”


“Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection.”

This one is painful to even read. Must be from a romance novel.

"I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead."

"Experience is a keen teacher."

“I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”

“You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god I don’t believe in for bringing me to you.”


“Those for whom the war is lucrative are rarely satisfied.”


“Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection.”

“Oh, I don’t read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”

Title says it all. What do you find yourself repeating from a book weeks, months, or years later?