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“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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“We had our breakfasts — whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”
— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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"I did, as a child, think of New York as a kind of temporary station, and a temporary life where I never wanted anything, or pretended to not want anything, hiding that desire for a new bicycle or a comic book for that elsewhere we would most certainly end up in."
— The Mountain, from the story, Milner Field by Paul Yoon
— The Mountain, from the story, Milner Field by Paul Yoon
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"I'm too bookish for prison!"
— The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
— The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
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“I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't...”
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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"I'm a huge, hulking monster with anger management issues. I'm contractually obligated to encourage violence and anarchy on principle."
— Beast Charming by Jenniffer Wardell
— Beast Charming by Jenniffer Wardell
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"I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook."
— Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
— Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
08 |
“I have been tolerably well educated.”
— Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
— Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
09 |
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence."
— Sherlock Holmes, from the story, The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
— Sherlock Holmes, from the story, The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"You see — I've never had any real life. I've just — breathed."
— The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
— The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
What are you some of your favorite quotes, whether from characters from books or just things you remember from books?
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These are good
ReplyDeleteChristine: I agreed, it's why I posted them.
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These are great quotes! That last one — "I just breathed" — sometimes hits a bit too close to home...
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Nicole: That last quote is great, I think I shared that quote a few times already.
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You are right about number 10…that’s brutal.
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Lori: Number 10 is pretty much me, it's probably why it resonated with me so much.
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My favorite is "I'm too bookish for prison!" LOL! Thanks for sharing. Here is my link: https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2021/11/top-ten-tuesday-memorable-quotes.html
ReplyDeleteCindy: That one I found in a book that is about grief which you wouldn't think would work there but it does.
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So many amazing quotes! I love all of these. But especially the one from The Blue Castle. :)
ReplyDeleteLark: I think most people love that one, I do too.
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#4 makes me laugh because if there's anything good about going to prison it's that you'd have plenty of time to read!
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Susan: That one makes me laugh everytime I read it.
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Nice quotes. I think I can see why you like the last two so much- they're nice. I think a lot of us ant something more than the commonplace from life. #2 is great as well.
ReplyDeleteGreg: I find #2 quote kind amusing since it's in a very serious book but I also agree with it because you can't and you shouldn't worry on an empty stomach.
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Like Susan I laughed at number four. Prison, meals served and books to read sounds tempting at times.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite quotes (at least those I can remember right now and cite in English) all come from the same book. They are rather dismal:
1. I feel middle-aged. That is infinitely worse, I believe we have had all the fun we can expect here.
2. I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
3. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.
4. The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
... and let's end up with a positive one from the ending:
5. Something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played . . . a small red flame . . . It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones.
I think you all recognised Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
Charlotte: Oh yes, if you get into a nice prison, one of those minimum security prison, it actually might be nice.
Delete1 - I kind of agree with this one no matter what age I was in.
2 - I like this idea.
3 - Interesting.
4 - Agreed. I don't know. I guess I'm too old to understand people younger than me.
5 - Don't know. Actually, I have not read Brideshead Revisited so I'm not quite sure what this last quote meant.
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All interesting in their own way (the breakfast one is really funny), but the last two are so ME. I had to go and add them to my Goodreads' quotes page.
ReplyDeleteRoberta: That last two, that's me too, I guess it's why I like them so much.
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These are great! Number 10 is my favorite because I haven't had a real life either. :)
ReplyDeleteAj: I think most people think that way. I know I do.
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I love the quote "I am too bookish for prison." XD
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Quinley: So do I. It's one reason I deciede to read the book.
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