For the Love of Reading

I love reading. I have hundreds of quotes from hundreds of books written on post-it notes, flash cards and everything else in my room. A few words to a few sentences can say so much and I wanted to share them all with you. Please share your favorites too because I will post those and I personally want to read them and make your favorite quotes my favorite quotes too! I am 21 and an English Major if you must know. For me, finding new books and understanding how other people use this fabulous language fascinates me to no end, enough so that I plan on doing it the rest of my life. Book recommendations are always welcome and message me for book recommendations you would like.

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And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

Scott Westerfeld, Stupid Perfect World

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She wasn’t a person that needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

- E. Lockheart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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What each theory reveals: how much hope the theorizer has left.

Find Me, Laura Van Den Berg

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Secrecy begets tyranny. ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.

Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Middlemarch, By George Eliot

I might need to start using the term, "Handsome young fellows."

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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.  ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Middlemarch, By George Eliot

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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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"That looks like it hurt."

"Glory always does."

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Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

 Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

 James Joyce, Ulysses

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch, By George Eliot

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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.  ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

 Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

 James Joyce, Ulysses