What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

[redknitcapgirl]

Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no reason other than the fact that our skin doesn't really feel like it's ours.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

[Bertha Jackson]

"Life, as I am learning, is a twisted road with confusing sign-posts." in Solstice Series by John J. Blenkush.

[amahstone]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!'

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
While I didn't particularly enjoy On the Road, this quote has stuck with me for years.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.'

-Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves
This is perhaps my favorite book.

-Amanda

[gab_variable]

Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?

- Marie Rutkoski The Winner's Curse

That trilogy is still my favorite YA series even after reading over 300 other books.

[zainherb]

what has no mouth, can't be smarter than one.

African Yoruba proverb.

[Yearly Joy Besoy]

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.

Beyond Paris by Paul Alexander Casper

[Joseph_ngaruiya]

There are two ways to being unhappy in life:
1: By expecting to make everybody happy
2: By expecting everybody to be happy with you

-Mahatria [infinitheism]

[ClaZig]

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

This book is one of my favorites of all time! I think this beautiful quote really captures the essence of the book. I remember how this story changed forever the way I saw the world, and I would highly recommend nearly anyone to read it.

[PeterRabitt20]

For today, my favorite quote is by the famous French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte. He said, "history is a lie agreed upon." He went from revolutionary and then decided to crown himself emperor of France.

https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_ ... 0hopes.%22

[EReid]

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
-Rabbi Tarfon

This quote isn't actually from a book, but I came across it once and I think about it a lot. It really keeps me focused on changing what I can and leaving the rest to God.

[jaym_tan]

"In an unequal society, much goes unchallenged because we are so used to hearing the ostensibly reasonable justifications that help to maintain the status quo." - Laura Bates, Misogynation

[nf-reader]

Get busy living or get busy dying

— Stephen King

[Tamika Chitwanga]

I do implore, you should always be of your own mind in these things.

-- Stephen Curtis Burdick

[natasha juhl]

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;–it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
― Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility

[Krllymt30]

"You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him."
- George Orwell, 1984