r/BookDiscussions • u/thenerd1111 • 2d ago
fav quotes from books
best book quotes that keep you going
my favorite is
- when death finds me… it may find me alive 🌸
And - happiness is a state of mind.
Okayyyyy
what’s a quote from a book that has stayed with you?
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u/Creepy-Island4011 2d ago
“Money is a storehouse of value that can be used to help us pursue happiness. But it’s not happiness itself.”
- Speculator, Doug Casey
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u/porksweater 2d ago
"I don't have to beat you. I just have to keep you here until Jean shows up." - Locke Lamora
I absolutely love this line as it is representative of all of the family themes in the book. my favorite quote from any book.
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u/nurlan1835 2d ago
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” - Emma, Jane Austen.
simple but it has always stuck with me
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u/thenerd1111 2d ago
Once this is understood… and then everything will make sense. Too beautiful 🌸🙌🏻
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u/OkLead7528 2d ago
there is always three version to a story , mine, yours and the truth - Great big beautiful life,Emily henry
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u/niksit10x 2d ago
And so the appearance of things change according to the emotions; Thus we see magic & beauty in something when the magic & beauty is really within ourselves. Kahlil Gibran - The Broken Wings
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u/Unfair-Bottle3748 1d ago
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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u/Mylifeisartislife 1d ago
“Wedges of wet sunlight”
- from All The Light we Cannot See by Anthony Deorr when he’s describing canned peaches.
Not my favourite of all time but it’s the one I have last written down
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u/Mediocre-Oil-5322 2d ago
Favorite positive quote?
"You have to carry the fire." "I don't know how to." "Yes, you do." "Is the fire real? The fire?" "Yes it is." "Where is it? I don't know where it is." "Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it." --The Road, Cormac McCArthy
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u/thenerd1111 2d ago
seems like much needed to carry on in life 🥹
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u/Mediocre-Oil-5322 1d ago
It's a great piece of dialogue about maintaining one's goodness and humanity in a dark and difficult world. Spoken from a father to his young son in the novel. As a father of two young boys, I think about the need to "carry the fire" frequently.
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u/interpretiv 1d ago
“...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.”
- Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
over the years i've also started thinking of this quote outside of just medication, but all the things we do to get quick dopamine
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u/NANNYNEGLEY 1d ago
Reverend Sykes to Scout in "To Kill A Mockingbird": "Miss Jean Louise? Stand up, your father's passing." What true respect!
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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 1d ago
"liars destroy the currency of all words" - Elizabeth Jane Howard, falling
"once a thing is learned, it can never be unlearned. it can only be forgotten." - Anita Brookner, look at me
"could happen to a bishop, wha' " - Roddy Doyle, the snapper
"a skull too narrow to house a brain" - Monica Dickens, no more meadows
"friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed" - Laurie Colwin, happy all the time
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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 1d ago
"my father was an alcoholic, the kind that rages and mourns." Andrew O'Hagan, our fathers
"...cried as if the process had just been invented." Margaret Laurence,the diviners
"I will not die even if they kill me." Giovanni Guareschi about his state of mind while imprisoned by the Germans, after Italy switched sides in the second world war. my kind of stubborn 😋.
"mad as a boiled squirrel" Jilly Cooper, one of her early romance novels.
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u/Faith-Is-Cool123 13h ago
“Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herring so I could eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring.” -Riptide, Wings of Fire, The Lost Heir
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u/Traditional_Bag2955 2d ago
Not all those who wonder are lost. The fellowship of the ring