Book Quotes: King And Beyond.

[skimom2]

"What she thought was that cures of all sorts exist in the natural world. Its every nook and cranny apparently lay filled with physic and restorative to bind up rents from the outside. Even the most hidden root or web served some use. And there was spirit rising from within to knit sturdy scar tissue over the backsides of wounds. Either way, though, you had to work at it, and they'd both fail you if you doubted them too much."

-Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (Such a lovely book! Frazier painted with his words in this one.)

 

[skimom2]

"You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you."

-Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (His version of "Get busy living or get busy dying." At one point, this was a comfort to me)

 

[danie]

"You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you."

-Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (His version of "Get busy living or get busy dying." At one point, this was a comfort to me)

Wow. I needed this today. Beautiful.

 

[skimom2]

"When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better, too."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

[skimom2]

"...that's not my right. Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

[Dana Jean]

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

 

[skimom2]

Wow. I needed this today. Beautiful.

Have you read Cold Mountain? It's just plain lovely, even when it's ugly. One of my favorites--it was difficult picking just a couple of quotes because his writing is so luminous.

 

[champ1966]

• “He was the most completely harmless person I’ve ever known. Not only would he not hurt a fly, he couldn’t hurt a fly. If he slapped on, and lifted his hand, it would buzz off undisturbed. He was like a holy person in a Bible story, someone who can heal the ripped and infected parts of you with a laying-on of hands. You know how Bible stories go. That kind of person, they’re never around long. Losers and jerks put nails in them and watch the air run out.”- Pop Art Joe Hill

Did you ever see the short film of Pop Art, Dana?

 

[Dana Jean]

Did you ever see the short film of Pop Art, Dana?

Yes. Very good.

 

[danie]

Have you read Cold Mountain? It's just plain lovely, even when it's ugly. One of my favorites--it was difficult picking just a couple of quotes because his writing is so luminous.

I haven't read it. I saw the movie years ago, and René Zellweger's character got on my nerves so much that she kind of ruined it for me. I will put in on my TBR list though. I'm sure I'd like it if you do!

 

[skimom2]

I haven't read it. I saw the movie years ago, and René Zellweger's character got on my nerves so much that she kind of ruined it for me. I will put in on my TBR list though. I'm sure I'd like it if you do!

I think you would. The movie had to tell the story more straight ahead, but the book is more twisty. He set front and back time jumps beautifully to make points he doesn't just come out and say (rest assured, though, that the jumps aren't at all confusing). And the language! This book alone made me feel like I miss North Carolina, and I've never been there!

 

[danie]

I think you would. The movie had to tell the story more straight ahead, but the book is more twisty. He set front and back time jumps beautifully to make points he doesn't just come out and say (rest assured, though, that the jumps aren't at all confusing). And the language! This book alone made me feel like I miss North Carolina, and I've never been there!

Amazon, here I come!

 

[Out of Order]

Amazon, here I come!

While you're there look for the sequel.......Cool Mountain.

 

[danie]

While you're there look for the sequel.......Cool Mountain.

And then the third in the trilogy.......Lukewarm Valley.

 

[GNTLGNT]

And then the third in the trilogy.......Lukewarm Valley.

...and lest you forget the upcoming special fourth installment-Tepid Terrain.....

 

[Doc Creed]

Cold Mountain and East Of Eden; Both are in my top 100 list. Yes, I actually made a list.

 

[danie]

Cold Mountain and East Of Eden; Both are in my top 100 list. Yes, I actually made a list.

Well, there goes another $9.50.

 

[Doc Creed]

Well, there goes another $9.50.

Get out your charge card...here's my list:

 

[muskrat]

"When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better, too."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

East of Eden is what I'd call a meat-n-potatoes book. Sticks to yer ribs, fills ya up, leaves ya satisfied. *urp!*

S'cuse me.

 

[skimom2]

East of Eden is what I'd call a meat-n-potatoes book. Sticks to yer ribs, fills ya up, leaves ya satisfied. *urp!*

S'cuse me.

In my top five books I've ever read