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WORDS: What are your favourite lines from a book?
"Love means not having to say you're sorry"- Erich Segal's Love Story
Anbu wrote: "My favourites:1. "When you really want something, whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it" - The Alchemist. One of my all fime favourite.
"How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they thinkessential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber.How they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and that they do not care three ha’pence for; with expensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretense and ostentation, and with — oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all! — the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminal’s iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it.
It is lumber, man — all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat
so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment’s
freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment’s rest for dreamy laziness — no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o’er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.
Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed
with only what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so
liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think
as well as to work. Time to drink in life’s sunshine — time to listen
to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from
the human heart-strings around us".
Jerome K Jerome (Three Men on a Boat)
"He and Norma had hurt each other deeply, and their bodies had absorbed the pain: it was the stomach that tightened, the hands that shook, the breast that swelled then shriveled. Now fleshless they could talk by phone, even with warmth, perhaps alive from the time when their bodies were at ease together.""Next morning when he got into his car, the inside of the windshield was iced. As he scraped the middle and right side, he realized the grey ice curling and falling from the glass was the frozen breath of his children."
('The Winter Father', Andre Dubus)
“It is like Sun TV’s merger with Alpha TV.”- 2 States by Chetan Bhagat.
Everytime I think of this statement, my mind goes in giggling fit :D
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” ― Fight Club
"Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
― Shawshank Redemption
Ajay wrote: "Caption Haddock from Tintin:'Billions of blue blistering barnacles!'
'Ten thousand thundering typhoons!'"
its one of my favorites too...the captain's insults are the highlight of the tintin series!!
“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”― Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
"The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, own the one's you don't.If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours,then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter,always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions become our destiny."- Cutting for stone be Abraham Verghese
"From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole. Cross Rome mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."~ Angels and Demons
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring.The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.The promise that life can go on,no matter how bad our losses.That it can be good again."-Mockingjay
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
— Charles Bukowski
“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”-New moon
"He is a good man. But the history of this country and the history of the world is full of examples of good men who do bad things"Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta
Kashmiri wrote: ""The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, own the one's you don't.If you keep saying your slippers aren't you..."ah! I like it too.... its one of my favourite.
"The stars were eager to participate,hardly had the blanket of color been pulled a little than they started to shine through the deep blue". Lines from The Life of Pie.And not to miss The Kite Runner, "For you, s thousand times over".
"The bridges ached and the skyscrapers wilted. He had left the city again."-- John Green
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Every search begins with beginners luck and ends with the victor’s being severely tested.” By Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Gatha♪☮♫♥M.S Awesome ♥♫☮ღ♬ wrote: ""What I need is the dandelion in the spring.The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.The promise that life can go on,no matter how bad our losses.That it can be good again."-Mo..."
My list is going to be very long, so I'm going to sort them according to books:
The Harry Potter series:
1)It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget how to live (Philosopher's stone)
2)It is our choices, far more than our abilities that make us who we are (Chamber of Secrets)
3)Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Deathly Hallows)
4)the world isn't split into good people and Death Eater (Order of the Phoenix)
5)to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure (Philosopher's stone)
6)humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them (Philosopher's stone)
7)Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light (Prisoner of Azkaban)
8)If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equal (Order of the Phoenix)
9)Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it (Goblet of Fire)
10)it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! (Goblet of Fire)
11)It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. (Half Blood Prince)
12)It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. (Deathly Hallows)
13) Always (Deathly Hallows)
The Hunger Games:
1)You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
2)For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
3)Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous
4)Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you
5)It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apar
6)some part of my brain had trapped his single word of reply and let it swim up through my dreams to taunt me now. ‘Always
7)If you ever waver in your resolve, think of the Mockingjay, and in her you will find the strength you need to rid Panem of its oppressor
8)You’re still trying to protect me. Real or Not Real?
Real. Because that’s what you and I do. Protect each other
9)I think…you still have no idea. The effect you can have
10)That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
11)Is that who he loves, not anyone from the Capitol but a poor mad girl back home!
12) That there are much worse games to play.
The Kite Runner:
1) For you, a thousand times over
2)I wonder if that is how forgiveness buds, not with the fanfare of epiphany but with pain slipping away quietly in the middle of the night?
3) War does not negate decency, it demands it even more.
4)There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
5)There is a way to be good again
"You are the last man on earth I could ever be prevailed upon to marry."Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
Emphasising my fav.
I took the pic =^-^=
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“If you want to look at my feet, say so,” said the young man. “But don’t be a God-damned sneak about it.”A Perfect Day For Bananafish
Nalini wrote: "“If you want to look at my feet, say so,” said the young man. “But don’t be a God-damned sneak about it.”A Perfect Day For Bananafish"
One of my favorite books. 'Nine Stories' will always remain unforgettable and Bananafish will always be devastating.
I must share a few more, since I'm thinking about the book again now all of a sudden:
De Daumier:
1. "It was just then that I had my Experience. Suddenly (and I say this, I believe, with all due self-consciousness), the sun came up and sped toward the bridge of my nose at the rate of ninety-three million miles a second. Blinded and very frightened--I had to put my hand on the glass to keep my balance. The thing lasted for no more than a few seconds. When I got my sight back, the girl had gone from the window, leaving behind her a shimmering field of exquisite, twice-blessed, enamel flowers."
2. "Right or wrong, I never again got in touch with Sister Irma.
Occasionally, I still hear from Bambi Kramer, though. The last I heard, she'd branched over into designing her own Christmas cards. They'll be something to see, if she hasn't lost her touch."
Teddy:
" `Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die,' " Teddy said suddenly. "'Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve."
Bananafish:
"And Sharon Lipschutz came over and sat down next to me. I couldn't push her off, could I?"
"Yes."
"Oh, no. No. I couldn't do that," said the young man. "I'll tell you what I did do, though."
"What?"
"I pretended she was you."
Wiggily:
"Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that brawn-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in New York, and I cried all night?" Eloise shook Mary Jane's arm. "I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?"
Eskimos:
"Between Third and Lexington, she reached into her coat pocket for her purse and found the sandwich half. She took it out and started to bring her arm down, to drop the sandwich into the street, but instead she put it back into her pocket. A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket."
Laughing Man:
"I had no idea what was going on between the Chief and Mary Hudson (and still haven't, in any but a fairly low, intuitive sense), but nonetheless, I couldn't have been more certain that Mary Hudson had permanently dropped out of the Comanche lineup."
Esme:
"She stared back at me, with those house-counting eyes of hers, then, abruptly, gave me a small, qualified smile. It was oddly radiant, as certain small, qualified smiles sometimes are."
Kunal wrote: "Nalini wrote: "“If you want to look at my feet, say so,” said the young man. “But don’t be a God-damned sneak about it.”A Perfect Day For Bananafish"
One of my favorite books. 'Nine Stories' wil..."
I see two names on GR. Is it the one by Salinger or Shmoop?
Too many to chose from so instead of sifting through them, I'll list the first two which came to my mind.1. The opening paragraph of Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..
2.Rhett Butler's famous lines in Gone With the wind, "My dear, I don't give a damn."
There are other lines I enjoy at each reading; John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, Sweet Thursday, Cannery Row are full of such gems.
Again, certain works cause you to pause and reflect. 'The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran and 'The Crescent Moon' by Tagore, to cite a few.
Hey Gita, I have read both the books and yes, they are quite famous lines.
Well, amongst my most favorite lines, are the lines from the book - The Color Purple by Alice Walker -
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back"
Well, amongst my most favorite lines, are the lines from the book - The Color Purple by Alice Walker -
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back"
Okay, there are many favourites, but i am kind of stuck with these lines right now,from: The Fault in Our Stars: " People will say that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer people remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely.But it is not sad , Van Houten.It's triumphant.It's heroic.Isn't that the real heroism."
"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can." -Life of Pi,Yann Martel"For you, a thousand times over" -Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseni
Final thoughts of Sydney Carton as he is led to the guillotine in Charles Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities""I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more.
I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name.
"I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Akash wrote: "Ajay wrote: "Caption Haddock from Tintin:'Billions of blue blistering barnacles!'
'Ten thousand thundering typhoons!'"
its one of my favorites too...the captain's insults are the highlight of t..."
Captain Haddock:)) How can anyone forget his words:))
“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” ― Marquis de Sade
Love is a poison. A Sweet poison, yes. But it will kill you all the same- by Cersie Lennister in Clash of Kings
“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” - Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)
“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess” - Donna J. Haraway (A Cyborg Manifesto)
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.” ― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."— Dante Alighieri (Inferno (The Divine Comedy, #1))
Came across it while reading Dan Brown's Inferno.
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z” ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
" Shoot for moon, even if you miss you will land among stars " (P.S. I Love You)
" Shoot for moon, even if you miss you will land among stars " (P.S. I Love You)
I vividly remember the smile on my face when I read the first line of the book 'Road Less Traveled' by Scott Peck. It goes ....Life is difficult.
I must add the opening by Lev Tolstoy...."Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - best opening line ever....
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.”The final line to Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy byPatricia A. McKillip. Fantastic ending to lyrical, moving and under-appreciated classic of fantasy fiction.
"For you, a thousand times over" - Kite Runner.
wrote some poems need to publish it . couldn't it get published without any charge.
i wanna make a chapbook with attractive Indian paintings in background.
can anyone here be able to guide me the best.
pls do reply me on email.
arpit.chaudhary10@gmail.com
myself being a engineering student of MIT.
here a phrase from it .
"Alas i couldn't reveal her my vision,
Since friendship was the reason,
She married books to prove her deason ,
Thou i was theer but expired my season "
i will b waiting for your responses.
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'Billions of blue blistering barnacles!'
'Ten thousand thundering typhoons!'