Two quotes from John Irving:

Keep passing the open windows

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meaney

“Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.”

--Betty Smith

Anonymous wrote:All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina

I first read this book in my early teens. It was required reading for an older sister and I found the book and read it. This sentence struck me then, and I still am not sure I agree with either sentiment about happy families vs. unhappy families. But it's a catchy phrase.

This is a classic and I think I understand it.

If you highlight in the kindle (or kindle app on another device), you can link to GoodReads so all your quotes are saved. I love it!

You can choose to make the quotes private or public and add notes to them, too.

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't people saying what book the quote is from?

Because jerks like romance guy will crow about whether the book is “worthy” instead of enjoying the quote.

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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.

I have so many. One drawback of ebooks and audiobooks is that I don't bookmark great lines any more.

But here's one that hit me back in the day.

"All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy. He laid every action of his life before the Almighty, proposed tasks to accomplish, and at the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.” Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantès remained a prisoner.
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Anonymous wrote:Why aren't people saying what book the quote is from?

Dcums presume you're familiar with them or that you could look it up if you're not.

"Experience is a keen teacher" is from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, btw.

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

❤️

Never trust the gods that answer in the dark.
Best opening line!
The Mysterious Life of Addie LaRue

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Anonymous wrote:"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."

Yes, love this.

I was obsessed with Merricat when I was a teen.

Why aren't people saying what book the quote is from?

From Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

There runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence.

Anonymous wrote:"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."

Yes, love this.

I forgive what you have done to me. I love MY murderer - but yours - how can I?

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina

I first read this book in my early teens. It was required reading for an older sister and I found the book and read it. This sentence struck me then, and I still am not sure I agree with either sentiment about happy families vs. unhappy families. But it's a catchy phrase.