Enjoy a few of my favorite and memorable book quotes today!
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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, Volume 4
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“In Narnia, your good clothes were never your uncomfortable ones. They knew how to make things that felt beautiful as well as looking beautiful in Narnia: and there was no much thing as starch or flannel or elastic to be found from one end of the country to the other.”
~ The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia), C.S. Lewis
(Thanks @ The Irresponsible Reader)
“Books: a sanctuary for my heart.”
~ The Mountains We Call Home, Kim Michele Richardson
“The kindred joy of having discovered someone who read the same book was immediate, a friend whose mind had resided once in the same fictional world.”
~The Secret Book Society, Madeline Martin
“The virtue of affability is, simply put, the virtue of approachableness. According to the Modern Catholic Dictionary, affability ‘partakes of justice in that a person adjusts to other people, giving each one the respect he or she deserves.’ It is the virtue that might have the power to cure our collective loneliness. It is the virtue I hope is displayed in me, as I stand behind a counter and offer smiles to customers whose last names I may never know.”
~ Ordinary Time, Annie B. Jones
“Wronged women were not supposed to stand up for themselves. Wronged women were not supposed to come out fighting, or be angry, or battle for injustice to be overturned. Elizabeth’s course was unnatural in [McFarland’s] eyes…and therefore insane.”
~ The Woman They Could Not Silence, Kate Moore
“Secrets eat love like acid. But love regenerates.”
~ A Family of Spies, Christine Kuehn
“They’s justice and they’s mercy. If you not sure what to do and you gotta choose one of the other, I say always go the mercy way. If you make a mistake, make it for mercy. Bad mercy don’t hurt nearly like bad justice, and always remember, the eye of God can see.”
“…love and heaven and forgiveness are the most real things that we can know in this world.”
~Theo of Golden, Allen Levi
“Of all the lies you tell yourself, perhaps the most common is that, if you only do this or that, you will be accepted. It affects your behavior with classmates, neighbors, colleagues, lovers. Humans do a great deal to be liked. They are needier than I [truth] can comprehend.”
`~ The Little Liar, Mitch Albom
“I think of life rather like a long road we walk in one direction. By and large, a lonesome walk out in the wildness of hills and wind. Mountains. Snow. And sometimes you see in the distance some lights, and it heartens you, the lone house or maybe a village, and you come into the warmth of that stopover and go inside. Maybe you have a warm supper and stay a night, or maybe you stay there a few years.”
I have found it to be absolutely astounding. all the trouble living has turned out to be.”
“My life has been some strange balance of miraculous and mundane.”
~ The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
“What the players had in common was the way they communicated…Being part of the Cubs gave the players a human bond that offered a measure of fortitude and resilience on the field and off…The most significant contributor of happiness, the study found again and again over the decades, was not money or fame, but relationships with other people. Close relationships helped delay mental and physical decline.”
~ The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory, Thomas Fuller
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 4, Quotes Volume 3, Quotes Volume 2, Quotes Volume 1.
QOTD:
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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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