I’m on bedrest so I need something to do haha. I’m creating quote art of the best book quotes, but as one person I only have so many. I’m looking for all kinds of books, not just the classics. Other posts I’ve seen that ask this have Count of Monte Cristo, Anna Karinina, etc. which is fine, but I’m hoping to get all kind of books and genres.
Books I’ve included for example are Oathbringer, Fellowship of the Ring, and A Man Called Ove.
I am calling on the power of those of you who mark up your books 🙏 thank you in advance! I’m excited to see what you guys love!
I’ll be sharing them over on instagram @littlequotelibrary if you’re interested to see where they go!
by Accomplished_Heron89
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“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
All the world will be your enemy prince with a thousand enemies. And whenever they catch you they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people will never be destroyed.
Watership Down
Bastian Balthazar Bux’s passion was books.
If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early—
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless—
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won’t understand what Bastian did next.
– Neverending Story by Michael Ende
“What happened between us both happened and didn’t happen, it’s the same with everything, why do or not do something, why say “yes” or “no,” why worry yourself with a “perhaps” or a “maybe,” why speak, why remain silent, why refuse, why know anything if nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn’t take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and out feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven’t already been, and that’s why we’re so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.” — A Heart So White by Javier Marias
“I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.”
Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (one of my all time favorites)
Can you prove your love by doing nothing. Maryanne Engel . The gargoyle
“I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined of me. You do love me!”
assassin’s quest, robin hobb