WORDS: What are your favourite lines from a book?

[Akshaya]

More recently, I found many great lines in 'The book thief'.. Can someone quote them ?

[Pratibha]

“You have been to hell, Ketut?"
He smiled. Of course he's been there.
What's it like in hell?"
Same like in heaven," he said.
He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss."
He said. "To up, to down -- all same, at end."
I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below.
I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?"
Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell, you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss." He laughed.
Same-same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy in journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is... "
Love, too," he said.
Ketut laughed again, "Always so difficult for young people to understand this!”

- Eat, Pray, Love


“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

[Ankit]

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days


“The whole truth is a luxury. In case you are looking for it, a courtroom isn’t the place to either start or end the search.”
― Avirook Sen, Aarushi


"When two giants fight, the expendables are always the common people— like the people butchered in the riots or killed in the blasts, none of whom perhaps shared a fraction of the religious and political zeal of their so-called leaders."
― S. Hussain Zaidi, Black Friday


“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family."
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather



"You see but you do not observe. The distinction is clear"
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes



"Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed."
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons



“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[Kiran]

"WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!"
—Advertisement poster in the window of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .

[Anitha]

And when you want something,all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it... Paulo Coelho,The Alchemist... My most favourite book !!!

[Anchita]

"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody"
"And yours," he replied, with a little smile," is to wilfully misunderstand them."

An excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, my favorite lines from the book. These lines kind of sum up the whole emotion of the book, don't they?

[Kunal]

“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane, lambsquarter, cutgrass, saw brier, nutgrass, jimson-weed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping Charlie, butterprint, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads nodding in a soft morning breeze like a mother’s hand on your check. An arrow of starlings fired from the windbreak’s thatch. The glitter of dew that stays where it is and steams all day. A Sunflower, four more one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid as toys. All nodding. Electric sounds of insects at their business. Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time. Quartz and chert and schist and chondrite iron scabs in granite. Very old land. Look around you. The horizon trembling, shapeless. We are all of us brothers.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

[Mansi]

Sleep is like a cat .It comes only when you ignore it.- Gone Girl

[InsanePulao]

1 “Ah…” Favonius nodded sympathetically. “I don’t blame you for being nervous, Nico di Angelo. Do you know how I ended up serving Cupid?”
“I don’t serve anyone,” Nico muttered. “Especially not Cupid.”
Favonius continued as if he hadn’t heard. “I fell in love with a mortal named Hyacinthus. He was quite extraordinary.”
“He…?” Jason’s brain was still fuzzy from his wind trip, so it took him a second to process that. “Oh…”
“Yes, Jason Grace.” Favonius arched an eyebrow. “I fell in love with a dude. Does that shock you?”
-- The House of Hades, Heroes of Olympus 4 by Rick Riordan

2 "Every great power.....comes with a need for a great nap. Wake me up later"
-- -- The Last Olympian, Percy Jackson & the Olympians 5 by Rick Riordan

3 Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one’s side. Don’t ask what Love can do for you.
-- The House of Hades, Heroes of Olympus 4 by Rick Riordan

[Virat]

One of my favorite quotes is from the book named 'The Art of War' “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

[Bihag]

Ultimately, when locked again inside his study, he'd recall only the boy's eyes—those dilated pupils transfixed on the sky, somehow conveying rapture—and he'd think little more of what had been quickly fathomed there amid the gently shuddering grass: Roger's swollen lips and hands and cheeks, the countless weltlike stings that formed irregular patterns on the boy's neck, face, forehead, ears. Nor would Holmes ponder the few words he had then uttered while crouched by Roger, such gravely spoken words that, if heard by another, would have rung impossibly cold, unimaginably callous. “Quite dead, my boy. Quite dead, I fear. . . .”

A Slight Trick of the Mind - Mitch Cullin

[Ghanshyam]

The very first line of the gunslinger by Stephen King

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed"

[Anie]

When you will see me in my sari no more,
When you will hear my footsteps no more,
You may forget me.

You may look at the stars no more,
Twinkling in the midnight blue sky,
And call out my name no more.

I will gaze on a red rose no more,
To inhale its fragrance so soft no more,
Without you it is just a flower to me.

The nightingale may sound sweet no more,
the storm that raged in your heart
With such passion, it will rage no more.

Our fingers may touch our photos gently,
Stroking each of our memories lightly,
But in time they will be remembered no more.

And yet-
If I should die before
your time comes,
``Dear god, please make it so!
But please, dear Lord, I do implore,
Keep my beloved safe and secure,
Forever more.``

-That European Summer

[Anie]

Cool!

[Deepika]

Wow, nice!


Anie wrote: "When you will see me in my sari no more,
When you will hear my footsteps no more,
You may forget me.

You may look at the stars no more,
Twinkling in the midnight blue sky,
And call out my name n..."

[Savita]

" Would you tell me , please , which way I ought to go from here ? "
" That depends a good deal on where you want to get to . "
" I don't much care where - "
" Then it doesn't matter which way you go ! "
Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll
My comment : When we cross the threshold of adulthood , and the tests of life start in earnest , at every fork / crossroad this question comes up . Not always is the answer easy to find . Not always is there a mentor to point out the better way forward . But may the answer never be , " I don't much care where - " ! 😕

[Richa]

If you don't believe in magic, you will never find any.

[Deep]

"We will sigh in the Daisy's eye
And kiss on a green glass pillow." [KEATS]

"Sinners have more good times"

[Deep]

Harshit wrote: ""Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a godamm toilet seat."

"Holden Caulfield" in "The Catcher in the Rye""

haha...one of my favorite character of all time

[Arshad]

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

[Kratika]

“Often it happens when fools fall they get superstitious;
Often it happens when illiterate learn something they take it as testament;
Often it happens when poor gets money they think they are the richest;
And often it happens when sufferers like you see people living inside a hut they think themselves to be happy.”

from "A Journey In The Opposite Direction"

its just so mesmeric

[Pragya]

Dear Life, you are exhausting at times. You throw more tantrums than I have ever known possible. You slow down, you speed up, you take time and give time. Sometimes there is sunshine and other times there are storms. So I try to break it up a little, take risks, love a lot and find comfort in trying new things. But you are never the same Life, always changing, always keeping me guessing. So I will live you Life, to my absolute potential.

Pillow Thoughts
Peppernell, Courtney

[Deep]

“… always remember that past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

(One Hundred Years Of Solitude)

[Alina]

“I had understood something very important. Finally. That true love – doesn’t hurt. I still loved Richard, and I wasn’t planning to do anything about that yet. I was ready to always love him, without question, even forever”.
The 2 Richards

[Caroline]

“My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.” The Guardian
By Nicholas Sparks

[Ayesha (Seokjin's Version) ☾]

"I try to be kind to everything that i see, and in everything i see, i see him"
-A little life, Yanagihara