Literature Quotation
@epistolaryNovelization
I quote things. You will learn of nothing else.
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” *Excerpt from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” *Excerpt from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” *Excerpt from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” *Excerpt from Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
#d33p
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?” *Excerpt from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
“This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” *Excerpt from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
“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.” *Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” *Excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” *Excerpt from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
触れた指を零れる 君に届かない 飾られた虚実 愛がなければ視えない #MORE_UNNECESSARY_SONG_LYRICS_FOR_YOUR_FUCKING_UQUIZ #LYRICS_RELATED #READ_UMINEKO
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” *Excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(i read this in high school, i remember it being pretty good- the pear tree scene is beautiful)
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” *Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
god that book makes me weepy its so bittersweet.
I know if no one else got me, the Skin Horse always does
“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.” *Excerpt from Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
“Real isn't how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” *Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.” *Excerpt from Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
It is kind of funny to see this quote on this website.
"Passion is... it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time." *Excerpt from Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
"One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." *Excerpt from The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
“Maturity is knowing what your limitations are. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” *Excerpt from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
#rechitt
"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give." *Excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"It is important to remember that in which you have in common with others, lest you forget that which makes you different." *Excerpt from Untitled Work, by Anonymous
"Killing the undead is not killing." [ dropkicks that fucker back into the fire. ] *Excerpt from a short story by siren_of_the_ocean