"every hero is the villain of his own story" (the coldest girl in coldtown, holly black) I did not want to be a boring person after reading this. "Nothing was changed when he entered a room, nothing lessened when he left." - Oblomov Vaguely translating from a Turkish translation I read: I am allowed to want things, winter-king.” -The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Ardenįirst time I’ve ever heard a female character say that and it hit me hard.Īs a teenager: "We accept the love we think we deserve." - The Perks of Being a WallflowerĪs an adult: "The best is only bought at the cost of great pain." - The Thorn Birds
I even want power, over princes and cheyrti. Fall for arguments that present themselves and stand strong against critical thought. Dont fall for arguments that say 99% agree. Means that the whole world can think something. Then there are truth-bombs like these that will open your eyes! Mostly, because writing instructors always teach one to show what something does then Adams has that amazing description of what some doesn't do and it's a perfect image. “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”ĭouglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Of course, ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy’ changed a lot of lives. Karen The Dark Angel of Editing Conlin July 7, 2019 There are two kinds of freedom: freedom to, and freedom from. This is despite being taught that the socially correct thing to do was to turn in a run away slave. This’s when Huck decides to do the morally correct thing and not betray Jim. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” from Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I liked how the hopefulness of the quotation ended on a slightly mischievous “yet”. Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. There are classics that will forever have a place in readers’ hearts. "The Ride of the Rohirrim." This is one of the most moving passages, in my opinion, in all of the Middle Earth canon, making it one of the best of Tolkien's literary career and perhaps of the 20th century. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, ch. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. Most readers had ‘The Lord Of the Rings’ phase and it introduced so people to poetic prose and the fantasy book fandom. It’s possible I just read that book too many times as a teenager and it imprinted on me I don’t believe in God, I believe in everything.” - Fall On Your Knees Mine: “There is love, there is music, there is no limit, there is work, there is the precious sense that this is the hour of grace when all things gather and distil to create the rest of my life. A line that just pops into your mind unbidden, like some weird internal narration. Tell me a line in a book that changed how you see the world or shifted your understanding of how language can be used or just haunts you for reasons you don’t quite understand and maybe never will. Caution: this will make you clear your schedule for some reading time: Scroll through these amazing lines and try refraining from picking up the next book you see. Canadian author Anne Theriault started a very promising dialogue of impactful book lines and readers joined in with their own stories. Combine these lines with impressional eager minds of youngsters and you have a whole turning point that changes everything. Some lines tend to stick with you long after you’re done with the book. Twitterati got together and got talking about lines from books that made a major impact on their lives. Something similar happened today on a particularly geeky Twitter thread. It starts some great discussions and it gives current and returning book nerds a reason to stay inspired. Take Cover!Įvery now and then the online club of readers of good literature come together and share their favourite parts from books. SEE ALSO: 'Senti’ Mumbai Rain Captions Are Flooding the Internet. Lewis quotes without having read their books?
How else do you think so many people know of Jane Austen and C.S. Somehow they always have the best captions and they invariably end up introducing you to something new. Think about how many quotes you pick up from accounts of avid readers. Book nerds all around the world are changing the internet’s sensibilities one social media post at a time. Readers make the internet a better place and that should be a truth universally acknowledged.
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