Do you have a favorite quote from a book? If so, please share!
One of my favorite quotes is from a play by Edward Albee called The Zoo Story and the quote describes the trajectory of my life: “Sometimes you have to go a long distance our of your way to go a short distance correctly.”
i always write down any sentence, paragraph that strikes me as i read; therefore, i have many, many notebooks of quotes. but i’ll chose one from my current notebook: “if you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars”.
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My absolute favorite quote from a book is the last line of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.“
It is so beautifully written and so descriptive of life and history. I am drawn to nonfiction yet, for some reason, The Great Gatsby resonated with me. I first picked it up in my 20s and am now in my early 70s and have reread it every 2-3 years since that initial read.
My favorite quote is from my favorite book of all time A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean. The first sentence is “In our family, there was no clear line between fly fishing and religion.”
This is from Ann Patchett’s book of essays, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage:
“There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.”
It’s too long to share here but the sermon given by Karl Drum in William Kent Krueger’s “Ordinary Grace” has resonated with me since the first time I read it. It’s in Chapter 24, beginning on page 194 in the hardback edition. I go back to it whenever I need to be reminded that no matter how dark it may seem, there is still hope.
Not a quote from a book but from an author -
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” Orhan Pamuk
Wow, that is so insightful’
After my 33 year old daughter died, I was reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and drew great comfort from this quote from that book:
“I miss her all the time. I know in my head she is gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After awhile it’s still there, but you learn to walk around it.”
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens, author; A Tale of Two Cities, speaker was Sydney Carton shortly before he chose to die in Charles Darnay’s place.
From Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney - “I learned most of life’s lessons the hard way, but making mistakes is how we learn.”
This quote was at the end of a paragraph and it really stood out. The entire paragraph resonated with me.
Me too! I have recently adopted this practice and it really keeps me engaged.