- “after all, what’s a life, anyway? we’re born, we live a little while, we die.” – charlotte’s web, e.b. white
- “you pierce my soul. i am half agony, half hope. tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” – persuasion, jane austen
- “that is love, son of thorns. we welcome its cruelest blows and when we bleed from them, we whisper our thanks.” – lord of shadows, cassandra clare
- “you are part of my existence, part of myself. you have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. you have been in every prospect i have ever seen since- on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. you have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.” – great expectations, charles dickens
- “‘if you will thank me,’ he replied, ‘let it be for yourself alone. that the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, i shall not attempt to deny. but your family owe me nothing. much as i respect them, i believe i thought only of you.’” – pride and prejudice, jane austen
- “we are bound together, emma, bound together- i breathe when you breathe, i bleed when you bleed, i’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and i have always, always belonged to you!” – lady midnight, cassandra clare
- “i could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; i would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. i would know him in death, at the end of the world.” – the song of achilles, madeline miller
Tag: lord of shadows
favorite quotes in literature: part i
- “for you, a thousand times over.” – the kite runner, khaled hosseini
- “he caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. splayed her fingers over his heart. it beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. ‘break my heart,’ he said. ‘break it in pieces. i give you permission.” – lord of shadows, cassandra clare
- “if i loved you less, i might be able to talk about it more.” – emma, jane austen
- “that’s the worst of growing up, and i’m beginning to realize it. the things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.” – anne of green gables, l.m. montgomery
- “my dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. and if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” – alice in wonderland, lewis carroll
- “so after, when he whispers, ‘you love me. real or not real?’ i tell him, ‘real.’” – mockingjay, suzanne collins
- “he showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that i had none.” – circe, madeline miller
- “if all else perished, and he remained, i should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” – wuthering heights, emily brontë
- “you said I killed you– haunt me, then!” – wuthering heights, emily brontë
- “vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. a person may be proud without being vain. pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” – pride and prejudice, jane austen
- “i’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, to die upon the hand I love so well.” – a midsummer night’s dream, william shakespeare
- “i care for myself. the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained i am, the more i will respect myself.” – jane eyre, charlotte brontë
- “i have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! and if god had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, i should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” – jane eyre, charlotte brontë
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