Favorite Book Quotes

Sometimes as you're reading, you come across phrases, sentences, or paragraphs that are so profound (or funny. I really like funny as well) that you pause and revel in the genius of the author for being able to say it in that way. Below are my favorite quotes from books I've read, lines that have made me pause in awe. Enjoy!



 

"Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him."

~ from Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 

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"You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand."

~ from The Perks of Being a Flower by Stephen Chbosky

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"You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love."

~ from The Perks of Being a Flower by Stephen Chbosky

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"More matter with less art."

~ from "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 2

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"He had given this country its all, and in this land that used his bones for kindling, in this land that never once in the thirty years he lived and worked, never once said thank you…"

~ from Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Marie Viramontes 

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"According to gloomy old Dennison Carville, the aspiring novelist should understand from the outset that fiction's goals were forever beyond his reach, that the job was an exercise in futility. 'Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow here,' Hardy supposedly said, 'the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones.'" 

~ from Bag of Bones by Stephen King

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"This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.

~ from Bag of Bones by Stephen King

(Click here for more quotes from Stephen King's Bag of Bones.)

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