Book Quotes: King And Beyond.

[Doc Creed]

book quote describes chilton 2 a T

Oh, gotcha. Had to google Dr. Chilton. Didn't know he was Lecter's doctor in the books.
I'm not sure what that says about me, however. I posted this quote (after reading this book) because it described things about me that I previously couldn't put a name to. I'm not a sadist, LOL, but I do feel much like T.H. White.

 

[wolfphoenix]

....agreed Shannon, and this one hits pretty close to the bone as well-not only for writers, but every sensitive human......

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”

......this is a great 1

 

[Neesy]

Bump


I just read this passage from a book called "Sowing Seeds in Danny", written in 1908, and it made me laugh a bit:

Tom read it again with burning cheeks. A party at Slater's and him invited!

He walked down the street feeling just the same as when his colt got the prize at the "Fair." He felt he was a marked man – eagerly sought after – invited to parties – girls writing to him! That 's what it was to have the cash: – you bet pa and ma were right! – money talks every time!

When he came in sight of home his elation vanished. His father and mother would not let him go, he knew that very well. They were afraid that Nellie Slater wanted to marry him.

And Nellie Slater was not eligible for the position of daughter-in-law. Nellie Slater had never patched a quilt nor even made a tie-down. She always used baking powder instead of cream of tartar and soda, and was known to have a leaning toward canned goods.

Mrs. Motherwell considered her just the girl to spend a man's honest earnings and bring him to seedy ruin. Moreover, she idled away her time, teaching cats to jump, and her eighteen years old, if she was a day!

Not sure what tickled my funny bone - maybe it was the phrase "teaching cats to jump"

 

[SusanNorton]

"Again the water rose, they both took a breath; again they were submerged and his leg hooked over something, an old pipe, unmoving. The next time, they both reached their heads high as the waters rushed back, another breath taken. He heard Mrs. Kitteridge yelling from above. He couldn't hear the words, but he understood that help was coming. He had only to keep Patty from falling away, and as they went again beneath the swirling, sucking water, he strengthened his grip on her arm to let her know: He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing through each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean- oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on."

-Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

I loved this book.

 

[SusanNorton]

And one of my all time favorites . . .

"Get me a towel Rita, that last fart had a lump in it!" (it may not be the exact quote but I know I'm close)

Stephen King, Duma Key

MM, you get me with this every. damn. time.

 

[SusanNorton]

"This is a difficult thing for a father to explain to his daughter, Ruthie. But...if nakedness- I mean the feeling of nakedness- is what a nude must convey, there is no nakedness that compares to what it feels like to be naked in front of someone for the first time."
-John Irving, A Widow For One Year

One of my favorites books. <3

 

[SusanNorton]

"Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labor entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?"
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

 

[SusanNorton]

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."
Stephen King, Bag of Bones

 

[SusanNorton]

"But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete."
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

 

[SusanNorton]

Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.
Patrick Suskind, Perfume

 

[SusanNorton]

"Mr. Dial grinned. His small teeth, his wide-set eyes, and his bulging forehead - plus his habit of looking at the class in profile, rather than straight on - gave him the slight aspect of an unfriendly dolphin."
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

 

[SusanNorton]

"She constantly piles up her hair with her hands and then lets it fall. She laughs, but there is no sound. It's all in silence - she is made out of yesterdays."
James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

 

[Notaro]

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws"

Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless

 

[Neesy]

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."
Stephen King, Bag of Bones

This is a great quote! SusanNorton

I found one today (but not in a book)

"Friendship is a sheltering tree"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(It was attached to the tag on a tea bag - organic roasted dandelion root)

 

[Notaro]

“Don't Panic.”

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

 

[Doc Creed]

"There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret, but of pride. "

-Jane Smiley, Some Luck

 

[Notaro]

"Life is full of crises, we all know that. It's how we learn, how we grow. They help form character, mould the man (or woman), as it were. As an opposite to good times, they even help us appreciate life a little more; and a person without strife is a person without passion, for trauma both tests and strengthens moral fibre, becomes a measure of human depth. There is no adversity on this earth that cannot be overcome with fortitude and positive will."

James Herbert - Creed

 

[Doc Creed]

"Happiness is only real when shared."

- a quote from a Tolstoy book Christopher McCandless had highlighted before he died. (Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer)

 

[Spideyman]

Nikos Kazantzakis suggests that ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
— Leo BuscagliaLiving, Loving, & Learning

 

[wolfphoenix]

"I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself"
- D.H. Lawrence from his poem: "Self Pity"

.....mankind has a lot to learn from wild things.