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WORDS: What are your favourite lines from a book?
"It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over." - The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Rags wrote: "“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” - Great Gatsby"
I am mapping out my third book and I chose this quotation to inspire/guide me as I write. I don't think it is necessarily my favourite but it fits so well with my plot!
Dhiraj wrote: "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 ..."
Ouch! Don't these words cause our eyes to prick with tears?
What a good thread this is.
"To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different " - Elves to Bilbo Baggins- The Fellowship of the Ring.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"-Salvor Hardin in Foundation
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”The Picture of Dorian Gray
I loved The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was spectacular. Reading all these comments makes me very nostalgic for all the books I've read. Now I really want to read them all again. And then again.
'Hee hee, I howled, 'Jem's color-blind.'To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
That line has stayed with me through the years. And every time I think of it, it makes me smile. Guess, it kind of summarizes the bond between Scout and Jem, and what childhood (or simplicity or happiness) is all about.
:-) Already feeling happy typing this out!
"For you, a thousand times over" - Kite Runner.
"Time is such a slut, it screws everyone."
-The Fault in Our Stars
"The things i do for love","there's no cure for being a cunt", "There's only one god and his name is death.What do we say to death?Not today"-All from ASIOF series.."the only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy,anything and everything else can pass",there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated","lies go out but truth stays home"-Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The Fault In Our Stars:"What a slut time is, she screws everybody."
"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"You dont get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Julius Ceaser:
"Et tu, Brute?"
Romeo And Juliet:
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
And still lots more but I'll post them later.
what would you do if you weren't afraid?
lean in
lean in
"“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.Oh, The Places You'll Go by Doctor Seuss.
For you, a thousand times over - Khaled Hossaini's The Kite Runner.
I am actually terrible at remembering these and so write them down in a note book. But off the top of my head I think it would be the first stanza from The Hollow Men by T.S Elliot This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
And
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,...Tale of Two Cities
and of course-
Harry Potter
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Prasad wrote: "For you, a thousand times over - Khaled Hossaini's The Kite Runner."Those are my favourite ones too.
Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.” ― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You... this is one of my favorite quotes frm one of my best books...
And so we beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great GatsbyHappy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Anna Karenina
"Do not fall in love with people like me.I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.” ~ Caitlyn Siehl
"It kills me sometimes, how humans die" - Death, the narrator. The Book Thief.
Oh I'm grand. i'm on the roller coaster that only goes up my friend ~ The Fault In Our Stars
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
time can b such a slut -'fault in our stars'
u don't get to choose if u get hurt in this world,but you do have some say in who hurts you- the fault in our stars.
Nothing good comes free. Even Love. U pay for all things. And if you are poor, suffering is your currency. - And The Mountains Echoed : Khaled Hossieni
"If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke" Shantaram
From Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows:Dumbledore : After all this time?
Snape : Always
the secret garden, one of my fav fav books...At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago
'Stephen Gardiner. Going out as he is coming in.'- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
What a bold, brilliant, block-buster starting line for a chapter!
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.
2. "For you, a thousand times over" - Kite..."
... same sentiments for the Kite Runner lines.. my favourite too!
1. "Never laugh at live dragons" - The Hobbit2. "First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.” - Eragon
I have just read few books..as of now my fav is from The Fault in our stars which quoted1. The world is not the wish granting factory..
2. Sometimes ppl dnt understand the promises thy making wen thy make them
3. Pain demands to be felt
4. Writing doesnot resurrect.. It burries.
'It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine' - PG Wodehouse, Blandings Castle.
“Will,” Jem said. “For all these years I have tried to give you what you could not give yourself.”Will’s hands tightened on Jem’s, which were as thin as a bundle of twigs. “And what is that?”
“Faith,” said Jem. “That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not always punish yourself. I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done with beating.”
- Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Tarzan of the Apes
"When you play the game of thrones, you either win or you die." -A Song of Ice and Fire
A man can consider himself lucky if he has good memories and can spin unbreakable threads from it. It's said by Otto Frank in Treasure from the Attic
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We read books and find so many words that touches us or have us in splits...here I'll like us to share such words...quotes or lines or dialogues that touched our heart or made us laugh or just made us pause and appreciate them...(i don't know if such topic already exist as I couldn't find it...if it does please guide me to it)
message 2: by Dipesh 14 hours, 40 min ago
“I have no beliefs, No anchor, no convictions. If winds take me, then I will drift.”
Excerpt From: Erikson, Steven. “Forge of Darkness: The Kharkanas Trilogy 1.”
message 3: by Dipesh 14 hours, 37 min ago
"Umra bhar Ghalib yahi Bhool Karta raha, Dhool Chehre pe thi, aur Aina saaf karta raha"...
message 4: by Dipesh 14 hours, 30 min ago
“And perhaps that is the final, most devastating truth. The gods care nothing for ascetic impositions on mortal behaviour. Care nothing for rules of conduct, for the twisted morals of temple priests and monks. Perhaps indeed they laugh at the chains we wrap around ourselves – our endless, insatiable need to find flaws within the demands of life. Or perhaps they do not laugh, but rage at us. Perhaps our denial of life’s celebration is our greatest insult to those whom we worship and serve.”
Excerpt From: Erikson, Steven. “Memories of Ice.”
message 5: by Dipesh 14 hours, 30 min ago
“The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in—and it doesn't have to be very big—is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what do you get? Silence.”
Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. “Kafka on the Shore.”
message 6: by Manju 14 hours, 19 min ago
Dipesh wrote: ""Umra bhar Ghalib yahi Bhool Karta raha, Dhool Chehre pe thi, aur Aina saaf karta raha"..."
Nice.:)
message 7: by Dipesh 14 hours, 17 min ago
@Manju : Thanks :)
message 8: by Sweta 14 hours, 7 min ago
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.”
Marquez- One Hundred Years of solitude
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"For you, a thousand times over”― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
"She took the leap and built her wings on the way down"Every time I connect to this quote. I don't remember the book name though.
Read this years back :)
"Sometimes some people come in our life, they live and then leave, with a hole in our soul, which we can feel but can't fill, we try to survive but end up DeadAlive"A line from Book DeadAlive.
"Never forget who you are, for the world will not. Make it your strength. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you"-Tyrion Lannister to Jon Snow
A Game of Thrones, George R R Martin
"We're not friends. We are brothers."
-Jon Snow to Samwell Tarly
A Game of Thrones, George R R Martin
In the moment of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
-Winston Smith
1984, George Orwell
"Love is an act of faith, not an exchange."
"What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace"
-The Copt
Manuscript found in Accra, Paulo Coelho
"...so, I went towards the top(mountain), but always experiencing the sides. I had a long way to go but I was in no hurry. I went in little steps-just one after the other-but each step towards the top"
-APJ Abdul Kalam
Wings of Fire
SECRET ADMIRERI always want to describe your beauty to you…
But unfortunately the perfect words for you are few…
I failed each time despite of trying harder and harder…
With number of wishes in my heart I decided to be your secret admirer
I wish if I was a bird
Every morning I would fly to you place.
And sit at your window and be the first one everyday
To secretly admire your beautiful and graceful face.
I wish if I was dew drop.
Drop which keep resting on petal of rose.
When you will bend to smell the scent rose.
I will wish you morning by kissing on your nose.
I wish if I was a mirror…
Each time you appear in front of me I would smile.
I would secretly paint your beauty within me...
And declare you fairest among all.
I wish I was sun…
Casting my rays on you while you pray.
I will admire you from above in all possible ways…
And will ask god to bless you with grace.
I wish if I was youth.
I could stay over you till the time I could.
You will be proud of me and would never ask me to leave…
Whatever I am and whatever I am not…
The name secret admirer just fit me right
I may not even get a chance to have your single sight…
But you are in my heart and I admire your beauty every day and night.
2014:- LOVE UNSUNG
by:- Shantanand Sharma
https://www.facebook.com/loveunsung
"Sometimes some people come in our life, they live and then leave, with hole in our soul, which we can feel but can't fill, we try to survive but end up DeadAlive" - From Novel DeadALive
"Maybe the world came to an end a long time ago, but we just didn't care." - from the novel 'John Dies At The End'.
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