Quotes from Books

[JimmyRow]

The Sun Over Breda - Auturo Perez Reverte

"Colonels always arrive midmorning," he said, and from his cold, gray-green eyes it was impossible to know whether he was speaking seriously or in jest. "Which is why we ourselves must get up so early."

[Emil Miller]

From A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

'But you know I've felt low for weeks now... bloody low...how about some brandy?'
'Yes, why not? After all there are other things in life besides women and pigs.'

[Dark Muse]

A Room With A View ~ E. M. Forster

"The Garden of Eden," pursued Mr. Emerson, still descending, "which you place in the past, is really yet to come. We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies."
Mr. Bebe disclamied placing the Garden of Eden anywhere.
"In this-not in other things-we men are ahead. We despise our bodies less than women do. But not until we are comrades shall we enter the garden."

[mystery_spell]

From King Lear by William Shakespeare:

"Might I but live to see thee in my touch,/I'd say I had eyes again."

"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:/Had I your tongue and eyes, I'd use them so/That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever!"

"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty/According to my bond; no more nor less."

[Dark Muse]

A Room With a View ~ E.M. Forster

"There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light," he continued in measured tones. "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; becasue the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do very much harm-yes choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

[Zee.]

" ' Oh. Brown. Yes. Tall, young. Dark complected; women folks calls him handsome, a right smart do, i hear tell. A big hand for laughing and frolicking and playing jokes on folks. But I...' His voice ceases, He cannot look at her, feeling her steady, sober gaze upon his face.
' Joe Brown ' she says, ' Has he got a little white scar right here by his mouth? '
And he cannot look at her, and he sits there on the stacked lumber when it is too late, and he could have bitten his tongue in two. "


Any guesses?

[weltanschauung]

m.foucault- history of sexuality

[bouquin]

'This is what is called speaking... When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die.'

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'But we have so much to be thankful for. Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night.'

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'... to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn't it? To any extent.'

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But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.

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Every life is inexplicable ... No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge - none of that tells us very much.

[Pewnut]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way is was and will be. That way and not some other way."

"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."

[andave_ya]

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life by C.S. Lewis

"And with that plunge back into my own past there arose at once, almost like heartbreak, the memory of Joy itself, the knowledge that I had once had what I now lacked for years, that I was returning at last from exile and desert lands to my own country; and the distance of the Twilight of the Gods and the distance of my own past Joy, both unattainable, flowed together into a single, unendurable sense of desire and loss, which suddenly became one with the loss of the experience, which, as I now stared round that dusty schoolroom like a man recovering from unconsciousness, had already vanished, had eluded me at the very moment when I could first say It is. And at once I knew (with fatal knowledge) that to "have it again" was the supreme and only important object of desire."

"All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be.'"

"A fear that guarded the road to Faerie was one I could face. No one is a coward at all points."

[Remarkable]

"To kill a mocingbird" ~ Harper Lee

"...Atticus,he was real nice..."

[Remarkable]

"To kill a mockingbird" ~ Harper Lee

"...Atticus,he was real nice..."
His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover,tucking it around me.
"Most people are,Scout,when you finally see them."

[Cat_Brenners]

Mine is a Thesaurus so it's too hard to pick a quote.
Cat

[Dark Muse]

Paradise Lost ~ Milton

O shame to men! Devil with Devil damn'd
firm conrod holds, men only disagree
of creatures rational, though under hope
of heavenly Grace: and God procliaming peace,
yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife
among themselves, and levy cruel wars,
wasting the Earth, each other to destroy:
as it (which might induct us to accord)
man had not hellish foes enow besides,
that day and night for his distruction wait.

[Silas Thorne]

Mine is a Thesaurus so it's too hard to pick a quote.
Cat

Don't read your thesaurus. It's a story with no end. Every word finds a new one.