Stan Man Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 I love jotting down quotes from books that connect with me - anything I find inspiring, heartwarming, tragic, etc. I figured I would start a thread devoted to quotes that come from whatever you're reading right now. I'll start! "It was Bear's contention that if you want to know who is dreaming of you, just look at who peoples your own night world, for there's a confluence to the flow of dreams. I could only hope that Bear was right and that out in the unimaginable West, Claire woke up every few mornings with her pillow in a wad and her bedclothes damp and twisted, and that she went about with a haunted empty feeling that bruised the day blue until well past the dinner hour." -From Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Man Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 I'm on about my millionth reread of The Stand, and this passage always stands out to me: "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." That's an excellent passage. I've only read The Stand once, about five or six years ago. I'm bracing myself for a second reread. Probably my second or third favorite book of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 None spring to mind recently - I do usually bookmark lines that stand out. I haven't quite mastered it in kindle yet - and sometimes I wonder how it decides to highlight some sentences over others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 “I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,” said Ildefonse. “But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.”“Absolute falsity!” roared Hurtiancz. “I simulate nothing!”Ildefonse shrugged. “For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.” - Rhialto the Marvelous, Jack Vance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Man Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 "We all, when we're young, think we'll live forever. Then at some point you settle for living a great long while. But after that final distinction is achieved, survival becomes at best uncomfortable. Everyone and everything you love goes away. And yet it is your fortune to remain. You find yourself exiled in a transformed world peopled by strangers. Lost in places you've known as intimately as the back of your hand. Eternal rivercourses and ridgelines become your only friends. [...] You're left with nothing but your moods and your memory. Pitiful and powerful tools." -Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houndhelm Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 "It was Bear's contention that if you want to know who is dreaming of you, just look at who peoples your own night world, for there's a confluence to the flow of dreams. I could only hope that Bear was right and that out in the unimaginable West, Claire woke up every few mornings with her pillow in a wad and her bedclothes damp and twisted, and that she went about with a haunted empty feeling that bruised the day blue until well past the dinner hour." -From Thirteen Moons by Charles FrazierThat's a beautiful piece of writing, it makes me want to read the rest of the book. Here are two that have stayed with me:"A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, must combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness for dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then be will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then be will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it. He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine."- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 "Ale, man, ale is the stuff to drink, for those whom it hurts to think. Look into thy pewter pot to see the world as the world is not." I often find inspiration in Housman's words. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 "Everything happens."- A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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