Discussion: Favorite Passages/Lines from Literature

[mariacallas]

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[MynameisnotDeja]

Thanks for the bump! Great thread!

My recent fave quote:

"Still, despite all this, traveling is the true great love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal or constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby- I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to-I just don't care."

-Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love

 

[AmorRoark]

You were careful not to say those words that soon became our private altar. I had said them many times before, dropping them like coins into a wishing well, hoping they would make me come true. I had said them many times before but not to you. I had given them as forget-me-nots to girls who should have known better. I had used them as bullets and barter. I don’t like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don’t mean it then what else am I? Will I cherish you, adore you, make way for you, make myself better for you, look at you and always see you, tell you the truth? And if love is not those things then what things?

- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body

 

[mrs_mia_wallace]

"Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, and a young girl who’s spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you… she loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she’s happy and free as a seagull. then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull.

-Anton Chekhov, The Seagull


my favorite quote from a piece of literature ever