Book Quotes: King And Beyond.
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"O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
-Hamlet
-Hamlet
"Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?"
-Walden, Henry David Thoreau
One of my favorite works of non-fiction besides In Cold Blood.
-Walden, Henry David Thoreau
One of my favorite works of non-fiction besides In Cold Blood.
“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
“The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone
“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
- “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
Girl, there's never any turning back in life. But don't you worry, he says. The Lord is watching over us. Then I felt real hollow and low and mean. If He is a watching us, I wish He'd lend a hand now and then.
~These is My Words, Nancy E. Turner
~These is My Words, Nancy E. Turner
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“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Yes...I'm...fine." The last word--thin, hollow, weightless--fell away from her and into the echoing depths of the stairwell. As she gazed down, she wondered when she'd be able to retrieve and live the full meaning of that one gentle syllable again. Fine.
~The Misremembered Man, Christina McKenna
~The Misremembered Man, Christina McKenna
“Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.
Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
i cannot believe how much I loved these books when I read them now.
“I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.”
― Carolyn Keene, Password to Larkspur Lane
“I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.”
― Carolyn Keene, Password to Larkspur Lane
Three separate quotes from No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy:
~...any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground...
~You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
~Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
~...any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground...
~You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
~Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
I consumed this book in nearly one sitting. I really lose myself in his books.
LOVE this book. And the movie.
Sometimes the hating has to stop.
~The Railway Man, Eric Lomax
~The Railway Man, Eric Lomax
Awesome book and movie..
"Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."