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Posted: 9 years ago

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"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

- Jodi Picoult.

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Posted: 9 years ago

#93

Phenomenal quotes, everyone! 😃

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Posted: 9 years ago

#94

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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-Nymeria-

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Posted: 9 years ago

#95

Originally posted by: The.Lannister
Bookmarking! Will update once I get my laptop

Let me begin with something based on reading😃

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once."

- A Dance with Dragons, George R R Martin

Nice to see another ASOIAF fan! The whole series is filled with amazing ones. On a re-read now and these are some favourites from the first book:

I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. [Robert B]
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.[Arya S]
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
[...]"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose." [Maester Aemon - The whole scene is amazing]
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep it's edge. That's why I read so much. [Tyrion L.]
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. [Tyrion L.]

And some others which would need context :D

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-Nymeria-

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Posted: 9 years ago

#96

Originally posted by: ShadikaIshVeer
Beautiful thread Apple Pie🤗
I dont know if this is shared , if already I am sorry!

"For you, a thousand times over"
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runne

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"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

Yes "The Kite Runner " is my fave😆

Khaled Hosseini is great! My sig is one of my fav quotes from his novels :D

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-Nymeria-

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Posted: 9 years ago

#97

Originally posted by: Elvish_Hobbit
Whoa! I never knew there was a book forum on IF too! SO glad to find it and thanks to you, Effulgent. :)

Being a huge Tolkien fan, I should like to post what I find most inspiring about his works. Here are my favorite quotes from him.

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

To add from LoTR:

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.

😳

[Aragorn is love]

Also, Sam:

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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-Nymeria-

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Posted: 9 years ago

#98

From the Book Thief, by Markus Zusak:

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern:

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast[...], someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.
Stories have changed, my dear boy. There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. [...]The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?

The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh:

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

The God of Small hings, Arundhati Roy:

...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

That is their mystery and their magic.

Will add more soon!

Edited by -Nymeria- - 9 years ago

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Posted: 9 years ago

#99

Originally posted by: -Nymeria-

To add from LoTR:

<dl><dd>All that is gold does not glitter,</dd><dd>Not all those who wander are lost;</dd><dd>The old that is strong does not wither,</dd><dd>Deep roots are not reached by the frost.</dd></dl><dl><dd>From the ashes a fire shall be woken,</dd><dd>A light from the shadows shall spring;</dd><dd>Renewed shall be blade that was broken,</dd><dd>The crownless again shall be king.</dd><dd>
</dd><dd>😳
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</dd><dd>[Aragorn is love]</dd><dd>
</dd><dd>Also, Sam:</dd><dd>
</dd>It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.</dl>

Ah, I love these quotes! Thanks for sharing! All That Is Gold... is one of my favorite poems from the books. And Aragorn... ❤️

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Posted: 9 years ago

#100

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..." Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities