Tag: bookish quotes
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it’s what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.” ― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
“We read to know we’re not alone.” ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands
‘I like the sound a typewriter makes.’ – Paul Auster
That is so incredibly true, Auster just gets it.
I do love me a Great Gatsby quote… *sighs*
‘It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.’ Anatole Broyard
Top ten tuesday: Top Ten Quotes I Have Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year
Hellllllllllllo readers, it’s a Tuesday and it’s time for another top ten tuesday kinda post. I am super excited about this weeks topic because as you might know I lave quotes. Especially the kind you find in really great books. Have to admit I am so happy that it wasn’t ten of your favourite quotes because there is no way I could have picked ten; however these are a number that I have really adored over the past year.
“Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“some people aren’t just people, but a place—a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
“would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn’t read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
“He wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird“
annnnnd because I couldn’t not.
It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour
There we go, ten utterly gorgeous quotes that I think are just wonderful. I really tried not to be to cliché but there were just some that I couldn’t not include. As always comments, queries, what would you add or take away let me know or tweet me @littlebookblog1