Book Quotes!

Basically I hate making marks for quotes in books, so I decided to put things I like from my readings here. (sideblog for moonfire8)

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"I remember thinking: There will never come a time when I will not be thinking of this. And I was right. And I was wrong."

Amy Hempel, Sing to It

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Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be.

Brian K. Vaughan, Saga

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I feel tall tonight, like I could stride the earth, yank down stars, start volcanoes roaring!

Ray Bradbury, We'll Always Have Paris

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But good lord, all of a sudden you're fifty years old, that nice round total, that grand sum and-- bang! Depression and horror.

Ray Bradbury, We'll Always Have Paris

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Standing there in the dark, you weep with something deeper than sorrow.

Ray Bradbury, We'll Always Have Paris

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It was wonderful," she said. "But now we've ruined everything." "Ruined?" "Our friendship," she said. "It was such a great thing and now we've lost it." "I don't believe that," he said. She examined the ceiling in even more detail. "Yes," she said, "it was so marvelous. It went on for a long time. What was it, a year? And now, like damn fools, we've killed it.

Ray Bradbury, We'll Always Have Paris

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I remember we began to walk through the stacks together and you pulled out a special edition of Edgar Allen Poe to show me, and though I never was a Poe fan, the way you talked about him, the way you inspired me, I began to read the awful man the next day.

Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris

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In the cold dark sky, high above, Earth shone, a star, no more than a star, remote, beautiful, but only a star.

Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris

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They were at the bottom of a dry sea. A tide of years and centuries poured over and crushed them. They were the only living things here.

Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris

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Hey! you cry and La! you sing, and dance, and in dancing perhaps their toes may crack and knuckle and bunch and then tap and tremble and someday a long time after, alone in their rooms, because you danced they will dance by themselves in the mirror of their own souls.

Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris

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The world was full of statues much like he had once been. So many could move no longer, knew no way to even begin to move again in any direction, back, forth, up, down, for life had stung and bit and stunned and beat them to marble silence.

Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris

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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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The wind approached the boy and touched his face. It knew of the boy's talk with the desert, because the winds know everything. They blow across the world without a birthplace, and with no place to die.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?" the boy asked the alchemist. "Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist