How Did You Know? The Literary Edition

[rob200able]

In the stinking darkness under the barn, he raised his shaggy head. His yellow, stupid eyes gleamed. " I hunger ", he whispered. Henry Ellender.

[WeaponSamurai]

Mine is, Tell me I can't do it and watch as I prove you wrong.

[sassyseraph]

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Anna Karenina

And anything by William Blake.

[scargirl133]

"And for that moment I swear we were infinate"

The Perks of Being A Wallflower.

[patternsinchaos]

"To see the world in a grain of sand"

-William Blake (Not exactly literary I guess.)

[justtestingthething]

"everything is relative" (most probably from A.E.)

[eyt444]

"If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be, would be." -Willa Cather's "My Antonia"

[procyonblack2]

"And now," said the unkown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been Heaven's substitute to recompense the good- now the God of Vengeance yeilds to me his power to punish the wicked!"

-The Count of Monte Christo

[trillspots]

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " - Thoreau

[Jhadriael]

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -Thorin Oakenshield "The Hobbit"

[acekyken]

Yes, all we inherit shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a wisp behind. We are such stuff, as dreams are made on, and our little life

is rounded with a sleep.

~Shakespeare, The Tempest

[bananas1and2]

Oh! And my favorite poem, probably ever, is from Lord Of The Rings:

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

[bananas1and2]

Oh, cool! I'm reading both Peter Pan and The Picture of Dorian Gray at the moment :)

I have so many favorite quotes... My favorite John Green one is from Looking For Alaska: "We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."

However, my favorite literary quote of all time is probably from Peter Pan: "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies." It's so lyrical.

[rhapsodychan]

"All things trapped in time are imperfect. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for us that we thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, for we should be parched indeed, and most lonely in our perfect righteousness."

~LM Bujold

[TheVlogNuts]

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Um..I do belive this is from Peter Pan. Gosh i do hope I'm right.

[darrellfugate]

"As weeds among stones"????

That's what Roundup's for.

And here I thought you were smart........

[birkiejo]

Either "Tut tut, it looks like rain!" or "I had hoped for a slightly larger smaller helping!" -- both from Winnie the Pooh

OR

"Get out there, Preppie, and support me in the manner to which I plan to become accustomed." -- Love Story

[mjakasper]

and "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."Dumbledore Book1.

[mjakasper]

is 2:22 BJ Novak??

[LilacDunSweet]

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it" :) from the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

[NitaBMe]

"Truly landlocked people know they are."

Song of Solomon, Morrison

"In fine we thought that he was everything

to make us wish that we were in his place" Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

[cathairiseverywhere]

"Dear Sirs: Your $50 high-tech flashlight guaranteed to last five years has been broken by a barren chicken." --- Beyond the Sky and the Earth, A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa

[MadDogAirPirate]

Hmm. It's funny. I did the first, second and third days all to completion. Got stuck on the fourth, and I ended up working Monday so I never got to see the 'fifth' day. But then again, I don't see anything for the fifth day. Was anything done?

[culwin]

mentalfloss -dot- com

/blogs/archives/author/david/p­age/2

[MadDogAirPirate]

Meh. My fault, I figured there'd be a link from here and I didn't know where to go. Eh well, was fun.

[ytvids100]

cool

[PaperbackWriter9]

"I WAS TRYING TO SAVE MY OWN ASS!!"

-Paper Towns

[myownlover]

i bet you'll never guess mine!!

"Magic is not dead,...but a tool, a device we can use to set the balance of justice right."

i'll give a hint,

its a quartet of books!

and the second quartet of 2.

last book.

[RUNMICKERRUN]

what the heck is up with Catch 22?

[DistractedbyAwesome]

"God damn! We just had a near-life experience, fellas!" - Fight Club

I have a lot of favorite quotes though, that's just the one that came most readily to mind. I like a lot of Mark Twain quotes too; I'm of the belief that he can be applied to any situation lol - Jess

[soj22]

the man who neglects the real to study the ideal will learn how to accomplish his ruin, not his salvation - niccolo machiavelli

[InsincereSmiles]

"I only resort to cursing when I speak."

Certifiably Insane

- Arthur W. Bahr

Not sure if that's verbatim, but close enough...

[sylar3196]

Gosh I have so many I like.

Quote: Prayor is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. ~Bunyan

Quote: Not enough - Be not simply good but good for something ~Thoreau

Quote: Mystery is but another name for our ignorance; if where omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ~ Tyron Edwords

Quote: If it wasn't for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he wasn't. ~unknown

[PataponGirl]

"there are some people in this world whom you can just love and love and love, no matter what."

[Aduende]

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." ~Macbeth

[KohTohNeh]

Aaaahhh!!! I love The Little Prince and Anne of Green Gables. Unfortunetly those were the only ones I recognized right off the bat. But the quotes were flying by rather quickly. But anyway:

"People laugh at me because I use big words. But one must use big words when one has big ideas."- Anne of Green Gables

"Do not be sad. Death will be but another adventure." - The Little Prince

Sorry these are paraphrased

[kapowitsme]

Don't torture me till I am as mad as yourself

--Heathcliff Wuthering Heights

and what is up with the white book; I can't quite read the title.

[darrellfugate]

"The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls

Of mastadons are billiard balls"

See if YOU know the author.......

[Tubaroonie]

Not really literary but I do find this one really nice and also funny in a dry way:

"The world is a book, and those do not travel read only a page" - St. Augustine.

There is a lot from Murakami (awesome writer) which I could quote on here as well...

[Pokethemon]

"I do not like green eggs and ham." :D

[BelovedBitterSea]

Nous écrivons des choses éternelles. ~Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). I've never read the English translation, so I don't know the official translation. But for me it translates as "We write of things eternal." It was meant to discourage the Little Prince from putting his rose on a map. But, for me, the speaker did not understand his own wisdom. Because we do write of eternal things like love and pain. Much like Polonius in Hamlet he doesn't see the truth in his own words.

[StormyStephen]

WHY DOES CATCH-22 KEEP MOVING?!

D:<

[esgadeffle]

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold [as the hobbits do], it would be a merrier world."

-The Hobbit

[zengrenouille]

Le Petite Prince! That was the only one that I recognized. We had to memorize it in its original French when we translated the book back in high school. When I think of my favorite book quote, I'll be sure to post it here!

[Deag710]

"Twas never a tale of more sorrow or more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo"

-Romeo and Juliet

O and

"Do you bite your thumb at me?"

"Yes, I bite my thumb at you"

-Romeo and Juliet

[UhLawnUh]

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."- catcher in the rye

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.-chuck palahnuik

[highfivefourthree21]

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

East of Eden

[ElwingStarSpray]

"It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." -Frodo, "The Return of the King"

[W0RDFR0MTH3BiiRDxxx2]

"I write all my secrets on tiny pieces of paper, and throw them all around the city. And if someone ever reads them, then at least some other person on this planet knows the few things that I'll never tell anyone else. ." -POSTSECRET

[W0RDFR0MTH3BiiRDxxx2]

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

--Nichlolas Sparks//the notebook

[barnstar2077]

"And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he that sat upon him was Death, and behind him, all of Hell followed."

The book of Revelations.

My least favourite book from the Bible, but oddly, one of my favourite quotes.

[barnstar2077]

"The stars are not wanted now: put out every one. Pack up the Moon and dismantle the Sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good."

An Excerpt from "Stop all the clocks" by W.H.Auden

[partyweetow]

I was in this! My quote was "Instead of not doing bad things, I want to do good things."

The REAL quote is "I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of not doing bad stuff."

Chuck Palahniuk is so much more eloquent than I am. XD

[xXNiQiNeEdLeZXx]

Educatio est omnium efficacissima forma rebellionis.

Translation: Education is the most effective form of rebellion.

---Thorin

[LannaInPajamas]

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust. we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

- Albert Einstein

[lotdw]

One should remember that when Satan says that his mind can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven, he is wrong - he is continually in agony throughout Paradise Lost, and is perpetually in a hell of hell. On earth, we may indeed have his option, but he doesn't.

[callmeLIV]

My Fav. Lit. Quote : "The time has come the walrus said , to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax and cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and wether pigs have wings" [Paraphrased, do not have Alice in Wonderland with me atm , but good enough :)]

[Anaeli143]

Quote- If you really love something you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.

- City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

HI!! :P

[SunMoonFamilyGuy]

The first one was by Bronte! I'm so surprised I recognized it :)

In fact, I was copying down quotations today and that was one of my quotations.

[mirandom03]

"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."

Pretty much anything from To Kill A Mockingbird, really.

[frankkylou]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

--Oscar Wilde

[taryncella]

Love see's not with the eyes but with the mind so therefore is winged cupid painted blind. - Shakespeare

[DanaWielgus]

"Just answer me one more thing. Is this real? Or is this happening inside my head?"

"Of course it's happenening inside your head. But why does that have to mean it isn't real?"

[TRueMMELI]

I only knew 2

which is quite okay considering the fact that I read german and not english literature ^^

PS oscar rockt :D

[lizzyjones1018]

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."-dumbledore :)

[lvlyraindrops]

"Ashley thought he had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlet O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster."-- Gone with the Wind

"Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed."

"That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said.

"No," he said. "That's faith."

--'Drums of Autumn' by Diana Gabaldon

[Bucknik]

"Always carry a towel." - Ford Prefect

;)

[xWhoYouThinkiAm]

my favorite quote

"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams."

--Hiromu Arakawa (author of Fullmetal Alchemist and my idol)

[misuseofairqoutes]

I'm doomed to remember the boy with the wrecked voice -- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument in my mothers death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. ~ A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving

[kellysdeadsister]

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

[richmooremi]

"This planet has - or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of them were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

-The Narrator of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

[loonygrl90]

"Hobey-ho" made me smile the widest of the Nerdfighters' quotes, because Pendragon is (in my opinion) extremely underappreciated.

My favorites quotes:

That part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. (Looking for Alaska, John Green)

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling)

(And I failed at identifying the quotes. Epically.)

[ChrisIsCornflake]

"About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Ed--"

just kidding. xD

My favorite quote changes just about any time I read a book, so let's just go with this one:

"...[W]hat is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do."

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

And from poetry:

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost

[DanniYetman]

'Everybody makes mistakes," said the Lone Ranger.

"Best not to make them with stories."

"Oh, okay," said that Lone Ranger.

--Thomas King's _Green Grass, Running Water_

[ukebandit]

i love the katherines hat

[Scottium]

"I have played my part well."

[torquetrax]

"The Magna Carta continues to shape twenty-first-century views on topics as diverse as escheat, socage, burage, novel disseisin, and the bailiwicks of Gerard of Athee."- America (The Book) by Jon Stewart

[BaldButWigged]

love the little thing they're holding.

[IThinkIKilledHim]

Quote: The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

--Robert Frost

[Fanilow09]

"I love you" means never having to say "I'm sorry".

-Love Story

[snowlionud]

Without google, how about - "We love the things we love for what they are".

[lorfan91]

"No matter who you are and no matter how lonely,

The world offers itself to your imagination,

Calls to you like the wild geese -- harsh and exciting,

Over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

-Mary Oliver

[UniversalPimpSlap]

"I fell in love with football as I was to later fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it."

-Nick Hornby "Fever Pitch"

[emmetgirl]

"where we're standing, here in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything."

-choke, by chuck palahniuk

[emmetgirl]

i literally squealed at the le petit prince quote. i have a hand-painted poster of the prince and that quote (in french) on my wall, a parting gift from a former room-mate who was an acadian + an artist. :)

[jillis18]

Oliver Twist "To Die would be an awfully big adventure".

[jaderade9]

actually... i think that was peter pan. :)

[sistersalad]

This is brilliant!

[seabreezez]

"And I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference"

by Robert Frost, Road less traveled

[catiamarie]

"That which we manifest is before us.." [nothing classic -it's just my favorite line out of all of the books I have ever read] ( =

[yellowpages67]

"You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred." (1984 for FTW, folks.)

[kmh2157]

"We accept the love we think we deserve." - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be." - Eat, Pray, Love

"What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person." -Paper Towns

[sistersalad]

Nice. I really enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love.

[TheComicScholar]

If I can just say regular quotes: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.", "It's amazing how many people in this world are born at third base and think they've hit a triple.", "Some People are going to say that kids don't have the critical sophistication when they're reading to understand that, and I have a message for those people: Shut up and stop condescending to teenagers!"

[sistersalad]

I LOVE the "born on third base" quote. That is totally brilliant.

The third quote is from John Green, isn't it? :-)

[peevedmusic]

oh and whilst on the subject of quotes from writings by composers, there's got to be a load of great ones from john cage, the best probably being:

I have nothing to say and i'm saying it.

[sistersalad]

Ha!

[peevedmusic]

I've been trying to think of good quotes from my favourite books but can;t really remember any... so here's one i like from the composer Schoenberg in reference to writing music, and you know i'm not really religious, but it still speaks

To understand the very nature of creation one must acknowledge that there was no light before the Lord said: "Let there be Light." And since there was not yet light, the Lord's omniscience embraced a vision of it which only His omnipotence could call forth.

[sistersalad]

Lovely quote. Thanks, Jack!

[thelymachy]

The verb 'to give' was considered obscene and scrawled on lavatory walls. The verb 'to love' connoted nothing but desire. - Labyrinth by A.C.H. Smith

[angryenglishgirl]

But if you can furnish me with a piece of work that contains even the seed of novelty, the ghost of a shred of a scintilla of a germ of an iota of a shadow of a particle of something interesting and provoking, something that will amuse and astonish ~ The Liar by Stephen Fry

[ValensHawke]

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." Dune by Frank Herbert

"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home." Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

[ValensHawke]

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." Dune by Frank Herbert

or "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

[Gr8Godlover]

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books." - Looking for Alaska (I think about this when I see the measure of books which I have)

"Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl." - Paper Towns (I think this statement sums up people)

[ophelia1016]

"well-behaved women rarely make history"

I like this one... although I'm quite the "straight-edge" person, "well-behaved" is subject to interpretation because it can mean all sorts of things in all sorts of cultural contexts!

[sistersalad]

Exactly!  Great quote.

[bc06dave]

Where is the horse and the rider...

Where is the horn that was blowing...

They have passed like rain on the mountains...

Like wind in the meadow...

The days have come down in the West...

Behind the hills into shadow..."

-J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

[siagothic]

You guys are great~!

My favorite quote, just so happens to be from my favorite book!

"The sky was the color of cat vomit."

~"Define Normal" By Julie Anne Peters

And some other awesome quotes:

"Compared to me, you were never any good."

"We'll talk first, kill later."

~Both from the manga "Inuyasha"

~~~~SIA

[PrincessPureBlood]

"We'll talk first, kill later." Ahg, you're making inuyasha sound senselessly violent! Which it isn't. Most of the time.

"The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that." "No matter how we close our eyes, there's a whole world out there bigger than ourselves and our dreams.."

-Full metal alchemist

"If I can stop one heart from breaking

I shall not live in vain"

-Emily Dickinson

[Somethingquiteclever]

"There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed" Miles Halter, Looking for Alaska by John Green

SisterSalad makes the mundane quality of day to day life more bearable. Thanks for that :)

[sistersalad]

John Green is so freaking brilliant.

[kathykatinahat]

"'[Dumbledore] knew what he was doing when he gave me the Deliuminator, didn't he? He- well,' Ron's ears turned bright red and he became engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe, 'he must've known I'd run out on you.'

'No,' Harry corrected him. 'He must've known you'd always want to come back.'"

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

this quote always gives me warm, fuzzy feelings. ah, friendship!

[sistersalad]

Oh, yes, I love that moment too!

[kathykatinahat]

awesome video

but it says something about my spastic character that I was completely and utterly transfixed by the amazing mobile powers of the scarf

[Miss00Meg]

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

BTW, awesome video Liz!

[sistersalad]

Oooh! What's this quote from?

[Miss00Meg]

Sorry for the delayed response, I've been on vacation with the family. But the quote was taken from a poem actually. The line is from Theodore Roethke's poem, "In a Dark Time." It's a little heavy on metaphor, but the imagery is excellent.

[Miss00Meg]

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

BTW, awesome video Liz!

[tiffismyname]

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

[ovrrmyhead]

Hi Lizz of sistersalad! Herein Alton watches another entertaining video from one of his subscriptions (He has watched all of sistersalad's videos, while only selectively watched other subscribed account's videos).

I'm not too polished on my literature, but my fave all-time quote is "That's hot." I'll let you guess where that's from. I wish you the best!

[vampirestephy]

"To die would be an awfully big adventure" Peter pan

That's my favorite quote, loved it ever since I heard it in the 2003 movie :D

[Minapoozle]

a wizard arrives precisely when he means to

[Alpha1Bravo1Charlie1]

"My good blade carves the casques of men, my lance thrusteth ever sure, my strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."

-Tennyson.

[imurloser]

I honestly don't remember if this was in the book or not beacuse i havnt read it in year, but it was in the play and movies of Little Women...

" Late at night my mind would come alive with voices and stories and friends as dear to me as any in the real world. I gave myself up to it, longing for transformation."- Jo March

[krscrossed]

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter." - Lewis carroll

[KnivesMonroe]

Thank you for approving my video response Lizz. You are my favourite. :)

[8531212]

"It was a woman that drove me to drink! I never did have the decency to thank her!

[leberrong]

"Tell Them Stories" -Philip Pullman- His Dark Materials

"Until I feared i would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -To Kill A Mockingbird

"Sometimes lies were more dependable then the truth." -Enders Game

Loved the video, Great quotes... ^.^

[sistersalad]

Fabulous. Excellent choice of books. I love Ender's Game!!! Do you like the other books in the series?

[sairuhxpeace]

"Ive heard it said: By his home you shall know him; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence."

From Issola by Steven Brust.

"Usually, when I need a boat, I steal one. Using one of my own seems immoral somehow."

From The Belgariad by David Eddings

[sistersalad]

Love it! No worries about the double-post; the comment-screening has been throwing a lot of people off...

[tjbailey08]

YAY EDGAR ALLAN POE! thanks liz! :D :D

[sistersalad]

Thank YOU for your quote. Sorry I had to curtail it!

[likewithpie]

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."

[juliaberke]

JOHN GREEN'S IS FROM CATCH-22

i'm reading that now

great book.

[craigtotherichie]

it's better to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be... the phantom tollbooth. it's not classic literature, but it's a personal favorite.

[sistersalad]

The Phantom Tollbooth is TOTALLY classic literature. :-)

[craigtotherichie]

oh and ps the little prince (aka le petit prince, as i prefer) is one of the most beautiful books ever written. thank you for including it :D

[sealym]

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth." The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

[sistersalad]

Excellent quotes. Huzzah for Tom Stoppard!

[ophelia1016]

ahhh, my high school reading list

[ChrisIsCornflake]

Rose and Guild are Dead was PURE GOLD.

My school actually did a rendition of it that went very well. Luckily, the better of the two got that line. Perfect delivery. :D

[JMDowns9]

"Nothing is so bad that it can't be laughed at."

[TimStar525]

"If someone shows you who they are believe them."

I didn't know any quotes.... but life will go on. I hope

[letstrythisbabyagain]

Tim<3

[Deovindice2001]

Hot sistaz! (Yes obvious reference to Yo comments are whack)

And hanging out with Nerdfighters must rock :O

[ToAsTeDcRaKeR]

Lol. I didn't know any of those quotes.

[austenwack]

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."

Sexy videos! I lurve your crazy hiar

[sistersalad]

Nice quote. Where's it from?

[austenwack]

Frankenstein! :D

[austenwack]

it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential to invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Sain-Exupery???! Maybe? Haha

[SundaraKapasalathi]

Yes! The Fox said that! :D

[Mglosk]

Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil than you.

From the book Stormbringer, from my favorite author Michael Moorcock.

[purpleglitter123]

WOOO! you ROCK! :D

[culwin]

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children."

[sistersalad]

Good one! What's this from?

[culwin]

"Handful of Beach Sand" - Kahlil Gibran