Some new favorite quotes from The Unbearable Lightness of Being:

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

"We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers."

Roisu wrote: ""Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was"
The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman"

That is one of my favorite quotes.

I have been reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and love this one:

"He could out-superintend any boy I ever see. He knowed how to do everything."

haha yeah..I let everyone at work read that paragraph and now they all want to read the book! lol

Oh my goodness Jamie, that's hilarious! And so so true!

oh yeah..that's from Retail Hell How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate

I just started this book and already I'm finding favorite book quotes:


" I wasn't born a Retail Slave. I didn't pop out from my mother's womb with a feverish desire to sell things people don't want or need. I don't have the bouncy game show personality that would make it easy for me to go up to strangers and say, "HI! How are you today? How can I help you? Would you like to see our new Coach bags for the spring? Let me tell you what's on sale! Can I answer any other idiotic questions you might have? Please! Treat me like shit and ruin my day"

ooh i like that one!

" ...she had learned early in her life that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been"
- Message in a Bottle

"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit... And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest of my life without feeling that again? I thought: I want to go to China. It's full of treasures and strangeness and mysteries and joy."
The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman

"Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was"
The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman

"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
Fight Club A Novel Chuck Palahniuk

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
Fight Club A Novel Chuck Palahniuk

Stuff your eyes with wonder… live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451


I have some good quotes from Eat, Pray, Love that I need to put on here!

I do too! Ugh I swear I could watch that movie like once a month!

I love that one from the Bucket List Janet!

I love Where the Heart Is!

I just heard a couple of good quotes today, one funny and one just good.

This is from The Bucket List:
"Three things to remember when you get older:
Never pass up a bathroom
Never waste a hard-on
And never trust a fart"

Sorry it's stupid but I thought it was really funny way to live your life by!

The other one is from Where the Heart Is:
"We've all got meanness in us but we've all got goodness too and the only thing worth living for is the good and that is why we've got to make sure and pass it on."

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

i agree!! :)

"I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to make it better. It's just that I didn't know how."
-Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm pretty sure the entire book is just an extremely long favorite quote of mine. =)

i know have a million favorite quotes from our recent group read.

"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)


"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— EL&IC

"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."

yea she is a great author!! i found a new quote i like but i kinda forgot it..lol ill add it when i think of it. =)

kelsey..i love the jodi picoult one.

mmmm johnny depp..i love him in pirates! he is aswome as Captain Jack!!!<3

"why is the rum always gone"?
- captain jack sparrow

HAHA! i printed out some quotes that i love, so i wouldnt forget them. =D

~"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
--Jodi Picoult

~"Look after my heart, I've left it with you"
--Stephenie Meyer (the all time best!!)

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

~Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

~Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

~"bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid"
--USMC

"Whoever said the pen is mightier then the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
--Douglas MacArthur

haha i know exactly what you mean Kelsey.

you know...i have alot of quotes i absolutley love. but once you ask me the question of what is your favorite quote..they all escape my mind. dangit

"Carmen hated the 'life is too short' rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because 'life is too short not to,' you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it."
— Ann Brashares

ooh that is a great one! i read the poisonwood bible..how is animal dreams?

Great topic Jamie!

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

That is all I have for now, but I am sure I will have more to post later :)

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- from Jane Eyre

i really want to read that book. good quote Katerina!

good topic!


"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me, and Who's in charge?'"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

Silvia..I LOVE that quote from The Color Purple. its really great!

I love the first quote Jamie!

I absolutely love this quote from the Colour Purple. Contextually it is even more heart rendering because it describes my view on God.

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"

This is from a Midsumerr Night's dream.

"Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die."

My favourite all time quote, which I don't think comes from any book is:
"The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of."

Everything happens for a reason!!

By..i dont know. lol

What are some of your favorite quotes from books?


"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww'"-- On the Road--Jack Kerouac


"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac --The Dharma Bums

"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
— J.D. Salinger--Franny and Zooey