Sarah's quotes

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"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

tags: i, part
117 people liked it

"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

71 people liked it

"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

tags: books
53 people liked it

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: books, library, reading
1,494 people liked it

"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

100 people liked it

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

76 people liked it

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligable"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

53 people liked it

"How I wished I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

tags: jane-austen
41 people liked it

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
241 people liked it

"Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: art, truth
86 people liked it

"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: character, flaws, mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice, temper
74 people liked it

"I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god
80 people liked it

"At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the strength it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness:
All these I place,
By God's almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness!"
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet)

tags: fantasyyoung-adult, fiction, speculative
57 people liked it

"The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

29 people liked it

"We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are."
— Madeleine L'Engle

7 people liked it

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

tags: a, endless, l-engle, light, madeleine, ring
3 people liked it

""But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.""
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

4 people liked it

""...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." "
— Jane Austen

116 people liked it

"Does the walker choose the path or the path choose the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

74 people liked it

"Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself."
— Garth Nix (Abhorsen)

tags: confidence, fantasy, identity
6 people liked it

"Fang: "Man, you weigh a freaking ton. What have you been eating, rocks?"
Max: "Why, is your head missing some?" "
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

39 people liked it

"I feel like, like pudding. Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain. --Iggy"
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

31 people liked it

"What strange creatures brothers are!"
— Jane Austen

tags: brothers
144 people liked it

"The only thing you have to decide is what to do with time that is given to you."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

tags: destiny, fate, life, movie
195 people liked it

"...their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

4 people liked it

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

tags: dragon, faith, magic, mystery, world
47 people liked it

"Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division"
— R.A. Salvatore

23 people liked it

""Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize"
Wulfgar"
— R.A. Salvatore

12 people liked it

"Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters."
— Artemis Entreri (R.A. Salvatore)

tags: death, living
8 people liked it

"We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows."
— R.A. Salvatore

7 people liked it

"When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing. "
— Elizabeth Peters

4 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,728 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,138 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,741 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
436 people liked it

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: love
278 people liked it

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
181 people liked it

"You can make anything by writing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: writing
157 people liked it

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: eating, reading
162 people liked it

"It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)

tags: aslan, narnia
128 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,688 people liked it

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

tags: narnia
45 people liked it

"Things never happen the same way twice.
--Aslan"
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

tags: narnia
49 people liked it

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: c, lewis, s
21 people liked it

"You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand."
— L.J. Smith (Secret Vampire)

tags: james, night, secret, vampire, world
169 people liked it

"People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone."
— L.J. Smith (Witchlight)

78 people liked it

"I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand."
— L.J. Smith

tags: destiny, james, love, nightworld, soulmate
48 people liked it