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My favorite and most relatable quotes (part 1)

3/9/2018

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Once in a while I like to post something different besides book reviews. 
Today I'd like to share a few of my favorite and most relatable quotes from various books. Some of those books are my absolute favorites, while others just had a passage or two that really spoke to me.


“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” 
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” 
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.” 
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

“I find lateness exceptionally rude; it’s so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you consider yourself and your own time to be so much more valuable than the other person’s.” 

― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“My hair was mousy brown, parted in the center, straight and not particularly thick. Human hair, doing what human hair does: growing on my head.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“It was like standing at the end of everything.” 
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“It was love that made each touch feel like redemption and each kiss feel like rebirth. Not lust. Not pleasure. It was love that created joy.” 

― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“I didn’t want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me.” 

― Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

“I definitely wasn’t cold. I was liquid heat. I was terror and curiosity and denial disguised as indifference.” 

― Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword

“Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience.” 

― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes


“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” 
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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“Nature doesn’t care if we feel so heavy we might sink into the ground and never be able to pull ourselves out again.” 

― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.” 

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.” 

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? 
We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” 
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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