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Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 11:01:30 AM

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Have a favorite quote from something you've read? Here's the place to share it!

I'll start with a favorite bit of Alice Walker (from "Each One, Pull One" in Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful):

We who have stood over
so many graves
know that no matter what they do
all of us must live
or none

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 11:08:44 AM

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Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.
"Barrayar", 1991

Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
"Borders of Infinity", 1989

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
"A Civil Campaign", 1999

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.
"Falling Free", 1988

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
"Falling Free", 1988

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
"Memory", 1996

I have denied my eyes, both inner and outer. I am not a child, or virgin, or modest wife, fearing to offend. No one owns my eyes now but me. If I have not the stomach by now to look upon any sight in the world, good or evil, beautiful or vile, when shall I? It is far too late for innocence. My only hope is the much more painful consolation of wisdom. Which can grow out of knowledge alone. Give me my true eyes. I want to see. I have to know.
"Paladin of Souls", 2003

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 11:21:10 AM

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Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha

There is nothing I want more, Sayuri, than to become your danna.
I already owe you far too much.
I will not be refused.
Please.
We are tied to each other. I know you feel it too.
I never meant to mislead you.
Sayuri, I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have...

Nicholas Sparks The Guardian

I was the luckiest guy in the world when you came into my life. It would break my heart if I thought you’d never be happy again. So please do that for me. Be happy again.

Nicholas Sparks The Wedding

What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?

Nicholas Sparks The Rescue

She loved the way he smelled; she loved the rought texture of his hands upon her and the wrinkle around his eyes whenever he laughed. She loved the way he stared at her as she got off work, leanin against the truck in the parking lot, one leg crossed over the other, She loved everything about it.

The initial feelings associated with love were almost like and ocean wave in their intensity, acting as the magnetic force that drew two people together. It was possible to be washed away in the emotion, but the wave would,'t last forever, it couldn't- nor was it meant to be- but if two people were right for each other, a truer kind of love could last forever in its wake. In the end, it's worked out because we both want it to. As long as you two have that, you'll be able to make it through anything.

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 11:28:45 AM

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They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.
It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on.

The Carpet People, (1971; 1992), Terry Pratchett

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 12:51:53 PM

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The ending of "The Deathbird", by Harlan Ellison.

"What was your name?" Stack asked his friend.

Dira.

And the Deathbird settled down across the tired shape of the Earth, and it spread its wings wide, and brought them over and down, and enfolded the Earth as a mother enfolds her weary child. Dira settled down on the amethyst floor of the dark-shrouded palace, and closed his single eye with gratitude. To sleep at last, at the end.

All this as Nathan Stack stood watching. He was the last, at the end, and because he had come to own-- if even for a few moments-- that which could have been his from the start, had he but known, he did not sleep but stood and watched. Knowing at last, at the end, that he had loved and done no wrong.

The Deathbird closed its wings over the Earth until at last, at the end, there was only the great bird crouched over the dead cinder. Then the Deathbird raised its head to the star-filled sky and repeated the sigh of loss the Earth had felt at the end. Then its eyes closed, it tucked its head carefully under is wing, and all was night.

Far away, the stars waited for the cry of the Deathbird to reach them so final moments could be observed at last, at the end, for the race of Men.

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 1:10:28 PM

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Each of us has within him a dark chamber where real desires flower; and the horror of it is that they never see the light of another's understanding, those strange blooms. It is as lonely as it is dark, that chamber within the heart. Anne Rice Exit to Eden

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 1:17:39 PM

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Each of us has within him a dark chamber where real desires flower; and the horror of it is that they never see the light of another's understanding, those strange blooms. It is as lonely as it is dark, that chamber within the heart. Anne Rice Exit to Eden

Hey, I remember that quote.

I hope all is well over there, Jo, and that you had a good Thanksgiving.

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RE: Favorite Book Quotes - 11/23/2007 1:27:44 PM

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Each of us has within him a dark chamber where real desires flower; and the horror of it is that they never see the light of another's understanding, those strange blooms. It is as lonely as it is dark, that chamber within the heart. Anne Rice Exit to Eden

Hey, I remember that quote.

I hope all is well over there, Jo, and that you had a good Thanksgiving.

All is well. Worked Turkey day. It is a great quote isn't it? It had to be to stick with me for 20 odd years lol.

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I want a sensitive man - one who'll cry when I hit him.

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