#favorite book quotes

[3amomen]

My favorite quotes from books

"People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had." A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman

"I wanted to be a cicada. I wanted to pull my skin off and leave it in the bushes and nobody would recognize me, not even my own mother." Bone and All by Camille DeAngelis

"English did not just burrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular and Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods." Babel by R.F. Kuang

"if he has horns, who's to say he doesn't have hooves?" House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

" 'it's not gentle' he said to me. 'you can see it as whimsical, funny-be tempted to romanticize it- but tourette's comes from deep down in the nervous system and unconscious. It taps into the oldest, strongest feeling we have. Tourette's is like an epilepsy in the subcortex: when it takes over, there's just a thin line of control, a thin line of cortex, between you and it, between you and that raging storm, the blind force of the subcortex. One can see the charming things, the funny things, the creative side of tourette's but there's also a dark side, you fight it all your life." An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

"She swelled with self-indulgent anger, for indeed she saw she was on the verge of throwing a temper tantrum much in the same way her son tossed himself to the living room floor, kicking and clawing, injuring himself in the process, and then crying even harder- and she could not, she would not, stop it. It was easier blasting the anger out or turning the anger in, and she wasn't willing to keep it there any longer. She would not shred herself up inside, would not churn her guys into acid, would not grind her teeth in her sleep or cause her neck to go out, for the sake of being civil and mature and understanding and levelheaded." Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

"Should you ever outrun the guilt within your past, sorceress, you will have to out run your soul. When it finds you again it will kill you."

Gardens of the moon by Steven Erikson

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[gautierprotectionsquad]

I based these on the quotes most mentioned in the notes of that post about that telegraph article (btw jkr didn't even win the vote. Dickens did)

edit to show my tags: #i just really love books and want a collection of everyones favorite quotes#feel free to mention quotes that arent in english! it did say world literature

edit 2: I made another poll with non english quotes. And obviously you can make your own version

[crowleyanthonys]

"In the background Crowley and Aziraphale met on the tops of buses, and in art galleries, and at concerts, compared notes, and smiled."

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, published May 10, 1990

[anris-resurrection]

Aren't you a sight for sore EYE

[i-only-see-daylight]

Aelin: If I died-

Rowan, sharpening his knives: Death will not get you out of this relationship.

[platoapproved]

The building had been crawling with gentle humans who noticed not a thing as they’d stolen the clothes they now wore, uniforms of the young, and left by a broken door into an alley. Not my brothers and sisters anymore. — QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

[poorly-drawn-scumvillain]

"Shen Qingqiu didn't even want to pretend to meditate, so he lay on the bed, just pretending to be dead"

(First) Prev - Next

[civetside]

the doodles i doodled while i listened to the nona audio book babay! (plus my favorite pyrrha dve quotes)

[fairydrowning]

"The language of flowers and silent things."

– Charles Baudelaire, from Elevation; Fleurs Du Mal (tr. by William Aggeler), 1857

[tolkienillustrations]

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950

[try-set-me-on-fire]

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you — but first they must catch you!

[lovsome]

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

[flowersforfrancis]

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion”

— Edgar Allan Poe - Ligeia, 1838

[imaginarythingys]

I can never get over this scene

"Sentiment?" said Laurent. "Something like that." Their eyes met and he could feel each beat of his heart. A few seconds of silence, a space that lengthened, until Laurent spoke. "You should give me the other.” ― C.S. Pacat, Prince's Gambit

[gigizetz]

Little comic based on a dialogue from the book Circe