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WORDS: What are your favourite lines from a book?
“There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.” - from the novel 'Riot' by Shashi Tharoor
There are many lines which I like but a few of them are:Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.
Not all those who wander are lost.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
(i'll post any new quotes I read and like)
Ananya wrote: "There are many lines which I like but a few of them are:Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.
Not ..."
Nice. All of them are in my fav list too.
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
‘Roopa, I’m coming to see the commonality between sex and sport,’ he said resting on her belly in fulfillment. ‘Basics being the same, it’s the players who raise the bar.’ Excerpt from my "Benign Flame: Saga of Love" available as free book at Project Gutenberg Self-publishing Press http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLB...
There are a LOT of them but these are some which popped in my head when I saw this question:1. "Hell is empty and all the devils are here" from The Tempest
2. "Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best" from Finnikin of the Rock
3. "You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them." from An Abundance of Katherines
4. "whenever you feel like criticising anyone,just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had" from The Great Gatsby
5. "If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” from Looking for Alaska
"I will stop the motor of the world" - a sentence spoken by John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged. A book can be written on this quote, which Ayn did in fact.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how dear to his heart and eye morning can be. ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stops for anybody.”“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
- The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
As per your wish,I will age and you will remain young foreverFrom. Silence under the blue sky (Rajalakshmi Prithviraj)
In secret we met— In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?--
With silence and tears.
-When We Two Parted( Byron)
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
"All of you can go away. Except for _____. He's the murderer." - Death of an Outsider.
don't write if u can talk,don't talk if u can nod your head and don't nod your head if u don't have to... - The Family Corleone
you don't get to choose if you would get hurt in this world. but you do have a say in who will hurt you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.tfios..
“So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked.“Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.
From EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.― Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
"As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time".- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Glen wrote: "“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal"
Terry Pratchett really is the king of sarcasm.
I know they both are children's book but really, these quotes have stuck with me-1. Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living. And above all pity those who have to live without love. - Harry Potter #7
2. Life is only precious because it ends, kid. - Percy Jackson series
quote from Nick's father - Great Gatsby
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- opening sentence and what a profound one!
“I’ve learned that, without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
The Alchemist says, the world's biggest lie is that at some point in your life, you lose control of what is happening to you and your life is controlled by fate...!
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.” - George Orwell
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.” - George Orwell
"Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees." - Khalil Gibran
"Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink""Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet"
Both from the book
“Unknown situations offer us opportunities for fresh learning. When we judge these situations solely by our conscious logic, fear grips us; we turn these opportunities down. We close ourselves from new experiences. We stagnate.On the contrary, when we embrace these opportunities, we force our intuition to work in the face of risks. And then, when we observe our perceptions, actions, and reactions in these situations, we see our evolution. We break out of our limits.”
― Indrajit Garai, The Seeker of Well-Being
The Seeker of Well-Being
Plenty of favourites but among them:"For you, a thousand times over."
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Hemish wrote: "“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to th..." Big fan of this novel and the movie; the quote is just ok :)
I have many favourite quotes from more serious books. But this is the one I like best : "what can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And Me." - Love story
Sruti wrote: "'whenever you feel like criticising anyone,just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had'the great gatsby." Good one !
"Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a godamm toilet seat.""Holden Caulfield" in "The Catcher in the Rye"
Glen wrote: "“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things"
:)
Vikram wrote: "“So sadness is a place?” Giovanni asked.“Sometimes people live there for years,” I said.
From EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert"
Good one ! saw the movie but didn't read the book !
there are many... but at the moment this one has been going in my mind again and again."For you, a thousand times over". The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
"Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?" Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs.
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are 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 yellow 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 book which made me feel empty and alive at the same time.
“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.
When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.
In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’
And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?
The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
Abhishek wrote: "“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.The followin..."
Nice. Thanks for sharing this. :)
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Its something we all feel. What I really liked is how beautifully she associated it with a bottle of scent. The lines, to me, are are just perfectly worded.