Enjoy a few of my favorite and memorable book quotes today!
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Ten Memorable Book Quotes
Do you have favorite or memorable book quotes?
I’m linking up today with That Artsy Reader Girl for TTT: Ten Favorite Book Quotes.
Previous “favorite quotes” posts: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
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“May your faithful love rest on us, Lord, for we put our hope in you.”
~ Psalm 33, 22 (Holy Bible)
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“Strength, I had learned, was like this littered forest floor, built of small triumphs and infinite blunders, sunny hours followed by sudden storms that tore it all down. We are one and all alike if for no other reason than the excruciating and beautiful way we grow piece by unpredictable piece, falling, pushing from the debris, rising again, and hoping for the best.”
~Go as a River, Shelley Read
“Loving someone is like moving into a house. At first, you fall in love with all the new things; then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all its perfection, but rather its imperfections.”
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
~ Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown
“The art of simply living well makes a life into a masterpiece.”
“When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.”
(in a memoir to a son)
~Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. “
(written to a son at the end of life)
~ Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
“Love is holy because it is like grace…the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
~ Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
“I am a man who is cognizant of his world, a man who has a family, who loves a family, who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related, but self-written.”
~ James (AKA Jim in Huckleberry Finn), Percival Everett
Bonus: I Must Include My Very Favorite!
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad ones.”
~ Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
ICYMI:
Find my previous collection of quotes in these posts: Quotes Volume 3, Quotes Volume 2, Quotes Volume 1.
QOTD:
What is one of your favorite quotes?
Please share your favorite quote in the comments!
Happy Reading Book Buddies!
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke
“I love the world of words, where life and literature connect.”
~Denise J Hughes
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad ones.”
~Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I read because books are a form of transportation, of teaching, and of connection! Books take us to places we’ve never been, they teach us about our world, and they help us to understand human experience.”
~Madeleine Riley, Top Shelf Text
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I love your last quote!
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
Thanks Lydia!
Love these but definitely agree with that last one. It’s so true
Thanks Janette! 🙌
Wow, these are all wonderful but that one from Go as a River is beautiful.
I love that you included a verse from the Bible! It’s a very quotable book 🙂
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Thanks Susan!
I think I really must read, Gilead. Wonderful list, Carol.
Thanks Carla! Marilynne Robinson is a beautiful and thoughtful writer!
Great quotes, Carol – I don’t have any memorable book quotes in my mind. But many, many passages from ‘A Walk in the Woods’ always make me break out in both laughter and recognition. Here’s an example – “Black bears rarely attack. But here’s the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn’t happen often, but – and here is the absolutely salient point – once would be enough.”
Ahhhh! That’s a fun quote! Thanks for sharing!
I love that John Bunyan quote – must remember that so I can implement it!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
The Bunyan quote should be everyone’s mantra for life!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/the-es-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-e/
Yes, a fabulous and challenging mantra!
The one from Fredrik Backman is so cute and true! 🙂
Here are mines if interested: https://literarycuriosities.com/top-ten-tuesday-quotes-for-book-lovers
Backman is so quotable! Thanks for commenting. I’m hopping over to read your post!
I love the Backman quote – it’s such a good reflection of how we move through different phases of relationships
He’s so quotable!
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