“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"

“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

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

"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"

"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)

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

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"

"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."

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.

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

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.