What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

prelude2moonlight · Post by **prelude2moonlight** » 27 May 2016, 22:22

To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pore, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are.

-conversation between Faber and Montague in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

lirique6 · Post by **lirique6** » 28 May 2016, 00:08

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
- Henry David Thoreau

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 29 May 2016, 00:02

"He is making himself very clear, Mr. Blodget, and is simply waiting for you to pay attention."

Dr. Uyterhoeven, in Brooks Hansen's The Chess Garden (in reference to God).

jana33 · Post by **jana33** » 30 May 2016, 11:18

“I want you to keep them open...because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.”

― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

kbeckmeyer · Post by **kbeckmeyer** » 30 May 2016, 21:41

Peace: It is a providence, and no great change. We are only what we once were, but naked now.

-Arthur Miller, The Crucible

mmirabal1987 · Post by **mmirabal1987** » 31 May 2016, 15:19

"I was crying for joy, my Sassenach," he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you."

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander #1

Loversoflit · Post by **Loversoflit** » 31 May 2016, 16:51

A stereotypical classic...but it's a classic because it is so good:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 31 May 2016, 20:22

This is a sad quote, but one that I love.

"Sometimes when I close my eyes, I see the pixels bleeding off the edges of the world. This is a game. It has to be a game. If it's not a game, then everything I've ever loved is gone, and I'm never getting any of it back. So let it be a game. I'll play to win, until the day I don't. It's the least I can do. But I refuse to let this be real. I refuse to let her be gone."

Mira Grant in Chimera.

Violet_N · Post by **Violet_N** » 01 Jun 2016, 10:52

“The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily flu kind of way. It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.”

Jennifer Niven,All the Bright Places

Primrose · Post by **Primrose** » 01 Jun 2016, 11:34

This is one of my favourites and I quote it any time I see purple flowers.

"It pisses God off if you pass by the colour purple and don't notice it."
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

r4chelsull · Post by **r4chelsull** » 02 Jun 2016, 12:09

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." - Abraham Lincoln (supposedly)

I first read this quote on Pinterest and loved it! It reminds me of the glass half full/empty metaphor. I just love that it puts in perspective how simply changing a small thought can make something so much more positive.