32 Beautiful Book Quotes To Read

When You're Feeling Lost

2. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the
lights, the light of all lights.

Bram Stroker, Dracula

3. I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are
happening to you. Because those bad things arent you. They are just things
that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that
happen to you, are not one and the same. Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

4. In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

5. "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even
against the whole world, you were not mad." George Orwell, 1984

6. Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. L. M.

Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

7. "Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to
play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen." Ray
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

8. And know that you dont have to be perfect, you can be good. John
Steinbeck, East of Eden

9. Forgiving isnt something you do for someone else. Its something you do
for yourself. Its saying, Youre not important enough to have a stranglehold
on me. Its saying, You dont get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a
future. Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

10. If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that
reminds me to keep on trying. Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings
Playbook

11. Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things
that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and
not merely as we might like to be. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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13. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." Haruki Murakami, What I

Talk About When I Talk About Running

14. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the
old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring;
renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
15. Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the
pride of good, and above all let us never despair. Alexandre Dumas, The
Lady of the Camellias

16. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical

universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond
logic. Frank Herbert, Dune

17. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the
inexhaustible variety of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

18. "As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's
bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living."
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

19. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. Theres
still lots of good in the world. S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

20. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar
Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fan

21. "None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest
thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If
we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is."
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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23. "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

24. "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as
somebody loves you." Roald Dahl, The Witches

25. "Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded
money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes." Margaret
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

26. "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain
upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after
I had cried, than before more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude,
more gentle." Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

27. "And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it
through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact,
whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come
out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what
this storm's all about." Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

28. "I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

29. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupry, The Little Prince
30. A fighter can be a winner, but that doesnt make a winner a fighter.
Mark Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences
In Literature

2. "In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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3. "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning
on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

J. D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"

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4. "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I
am."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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6. "Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."

Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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7. "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives
I'm not living."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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8. "What are men to rocks and mountains?"

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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10. "'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour
of my life.'"

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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11. "The curves of your lips rewrite history."

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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12. "A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where
he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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14. "As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two
Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b)
It is best to be prepared."

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Suggested by Alyssa P., via Facebook

15. "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One"

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16. "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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18. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
in your philosophy."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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19. "America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."

Allen Ginsburg, "America"

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20. "It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it
was a defeat better than many victories."

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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22. "At the still point, there the dance is."

T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

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23. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter
was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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24. "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."

Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

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26. "The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the
right order."

Toni Morrison, Beloved

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27. "How wild it was, to let it be."

Cheryl Strayed, Wild

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28. "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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30. "She was lost in her longing to understand."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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31. "She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self
which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."

Kate Chopin, "The Awakening"

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32. "We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us,
with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of
smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered."

Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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34. "The half life of love is forever."

Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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35. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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36. "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the
lights, the light of all lights."

Bram Stroker, Dracula

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37. "Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet."

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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38. "I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving,
not even when the room went dark."

Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"

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39. "I would always rather be happy than dignified."

Charlotte Bront , Jane Eyre

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41. "I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you
tread on my dreams"

W. B. Yeats, "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

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42. "It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her
eyes."

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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43. "For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."

Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

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45. "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of
epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away
unannounced in the middle of the night."

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Suggested by Maria K., via Facebook

46. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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47. "Journeys end in lovers meeting."

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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49. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember
that."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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50. "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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51. "One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have
the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices

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45 Quotes From Literature That Will

Actually Change Your Life

2. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his
point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Submitted by Shelley Schoppert, Facebook

3. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Submitted by Bram NL, Facebook

4. "I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much
against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite
possibilities."

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Submitted by Erik

5. "You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you
when you realize how seldom they do."

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Submitted by Marianne Myers, Facebook

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7. "We accept the love we think we deserve."

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Submitted by Brittany Scott, Facebook

8. "Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do
for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold
on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a
future.'"

Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

Submitted by Rachel Dargan, Facebook

9. "Adversity is like a strong wind. It...tears away from us all but the things
that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and
not merely as we might like to be."
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Submitted by Nusaira A. Hassan, Facebook

10. "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are
identical and our hearts are open."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Submitted by Spencer Althouse

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12. "Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is
right twice a day."

Paulo Coehlo, Brida

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13. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with

common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments
dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another
with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Submitted by Hajar Chahboune, Facebook

14. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupry, The Little Prince

Submitted by Ilse Nightwalker, Facebook

15. "I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to
think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have
someone else's notions thrust upon you."

Christopher Paolini, Eldest

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17. "I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to
find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of
sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

Ayn Rand, Anthem

Submitted by Emma

18. "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the
old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring;
renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Submitted by Cristina Lopez, Facebook

19. "Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the
pride of good, and above all let us never despair."

Alexandre Dumas, fils, The Lady of the Camellias

Submitted by Kelcie Foley, Facebook

20. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the
ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like
fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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22. "Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio
and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all
the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness."
Stephen King, IT

Submitted by Cody Lakin, Facebook

23. "'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never
done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in
itself is a tremendous thing.'"

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Submitted by Samantha Kersul, Facebook

24. "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical

universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond
logic."

Frank Herbert, Dune

Submitted by Lindsey Cepak, Facebook

25. "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never
get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around
you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never
simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect
strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never
look away. And never, never to forget."

Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

Submitted by Tarin Beckett, Facebook

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27. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their
whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Submitted by Brennan Clarke, Facebook

28. "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us
love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities,
we are eaten up by nothing."
Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken
Over the Ship

Submitted by Jeremy Edwards, Facebook

29. "Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be... In the end, or rather, as
things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly
tied to all others... And, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate
time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something
that is."

Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

Submitted by Anna Shafer, Facebook

30. "Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky
bottle in the hand of (another)"

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Submitted by Norminy Tan Barodi, Facebook

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32. "When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way
around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life.
Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's
body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Submitted by Natasha Gracey, Facebook

33. "People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream
of."

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Submitted by Theresa Proler, Facebook

34. "'And tho' / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved
earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic
hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek,
to find, and not to yield.'"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"

Submitted by Fraser

35. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an
independent will."

Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre

Submitted by Rebecca Cook, Facebook

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37. "I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and
the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common
and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the
Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin
and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Maybe
forgetfulness, like a kind snow, would numb and cover them. But they were
part of me. They were my landscape."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Submitted by Katrina Mazza, Facebook

38. "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts;
and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half
owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited
tombs."

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Submitted by Izzy Thompson, Facebook

39. "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you
give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For
even the very wise cannot see all ends."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Submitted by Sarah Mosher, Facebook

40. "The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity it's
envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous,
possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly,
losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing
shadow of a cloud."

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Submitted by Christy Potter, Facebook

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42. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye
need to know."

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Submitted by Duane Cavanagh, Facebook

43. "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more
unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre

Submitted by Rebecca Cook, Facebook

44. "He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme
happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never
forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all
human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Submitted by Lauren Brooks, Facebook

45. "'Are you ready?' Klaus asked finally. 'No,' Sunny answered. 'Me neither,'
Violet said, 'but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of
our lives, Let's go.'"

Daniel Handler, The Ersatz Elevator

49 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences
In British Literature
And into the heart of the storm, with a cry that pierced all other sounds, tearing
the clouds asunder, the Nazgul came shooting like flaming bolts, as caught in the
fiery ruin of hill and sky they crackled, withered, and went out.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Suggested by @illucifer

"The sense of being absolutely in the right and longed-for place is fixed and
guaranteed by every ray in the universe"
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Suggested by @WELBooks

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"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe"
Lewis Carroll, The Jabberwocky

Suggested by @HannahBurden

"The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the
pumpkins of disaster."
Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

Suggested by @sassthat
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Suggested by @acaseforbooks

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

George Orwell, 1984

Suggested by @TomJamesBrook

AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies drw flme;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bells
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selvesgoes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Wht I do is me: for that I came.
 Gerard Manley Hopkins, As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies drw flme

Suggested by @marinedebray

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"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward
flourishes, I will be brief."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Suggested by @EliotAnderson

Him the Almighty Power

Hurled headlong flaming from th ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th Omnipotent to arms.
 John Milton, Paradise Lost

Suggested by @Anna_Mazz

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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of
experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

Suggested by @elizabethmoya

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I
am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre

Suggested by @SometimesKaren

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things
rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful
and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
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"Her hands were resting on his glossy fur. Somewhere in the garden a nightingale
was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead.
All the different bells of the city chimed, once each, this one high, that one low,
some close by, others farther off, one cracked a peevish, another grave and
sonorous, but agreeing in all their different voices on what the time was, even if
some of them got to it a little more slowly than others.
Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials

Suggested by @allygolightly94

"It was the day my grandmother exploded"

Iain Banks, The Crow Road
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"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, A Tale of Two Cities

Suggested by @eileencumisky

Youre just in time for a little smackerel of something.

A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh

Suggested by @Imelda_Evans

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The important thing was to love rather than be loved

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Fortitude. It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the
strength to live with what constrains you.
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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Suggested by @Holly_BourneYA

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with
stars
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast
and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in
answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing
when it only urges us to hide our hurts not to hurt others.
George Eliot, Middlemarch

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Suggested by @Bridgend6

She wasnt a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth,
the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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Suggested by @acaseforbooks

"He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.
A.S. Byatt, Possession
But time given to wishing for what cant be is not only spent, but wasted, and for
all that we waste we shall be accountable.
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though
the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
And so they entwined their lives to drink from the pools of each others sadness.
From these special watering holes, each man drew strength.
Monica Ali, Brick Lane

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
W. H. Auden, The More Loving One
There must be more to man than that, surely? That we are not just one, but a
multitude.
Marcus Sedgwick, Midwinterblood
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
To live in Wales is to be conscious
At dusk of the spilled blood
That went into the making of the wild sky,
Dyeing the immaculate rivers
In all their courses.
R.S. Thomas

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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You play you win, you play you lose. What you risk reveals what you value"
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

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We carry the lives weve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a
reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.
Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk
"Exit pursued by a bear."
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale