my favorite quotes from my favorite books <3
May 28 '12
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“All I’ve ever wanted was to be near you.”
4 notes Tags: shannon hale enna burning love
May 28 '12
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“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”
Tags: sue monk kid The Secret Life of Bees so true
May 28 '12
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“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning —-”
4 notes Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby wordslikeicecream
May 28 '12
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“This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”
2 notes Tags: j.d. salinger The Catcher in the Rye sad
May 27 '12
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“Hey, Effie, watch this!” says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, “We miss you, Effie!”
4 notes Tags: Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games funny
May 27 '12
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“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
5 notes Tags: nicholas sparks the last song love so true
May 27 '12
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“I’ll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.”
Tags: Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games sad
May 27 '12
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“But please, please - won’t you - can’t you give me something that will cure Mother?”
Up till then he had been looking at the Lion’s great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion’s eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory’s own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.
“My son, my son,” said Aslan. “I know. Grief is great.”
2 notes Tags: C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew God
May 26 '12
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“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”
3 notes Tags: Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games sad
May 26 '12
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“Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.”
3 notes Tags: Juliet Marillier Son of the Shaddows love
