Today I’m continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge! I’ll be posting every day except Sundays throughout April. This year, my readers voted for the theme “My Favourite Book Quotes”. So I’ve collected together the quotations that move me, inspire me and make me smile. I hope you enjoy them!
I couldn’t think of many books or authors beginning with Y, so I decided to ask for input from my fellow book lovers across social media and compile a list of your favourite book quotes. Some I took from the comments left on my posts this month. Thank you to everyone who shared these memorable lines. I now have a few more books to add to my TBR pile!
Your favourite quotes
“Always”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, suggested by Dave: “It amazes me how one word can convey such emotion and make so much sense.”
“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.”
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, suggested by Eva-Ma.
“Don’t try and make me grow up before my time.”
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, suggested by Natasha.
“The distance is nothing, when one has motive.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, suggested by Ola.
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, suggested by Maria.
“The future lay sparkling ahead and they thought they would know each other forever.”
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra, suggested by Kat.
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever sould are made from, his and mine are the same.”
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, suggested by Shell.
“It matters not what someone is born but what they grow to be.”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Rowling, suggested by Shana.
“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters, suggested by Sorcha.
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last.”
C.S. Lewis, suggested by Anne.
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
D.H. Lawrence, “Piano”, suggested by Lorna.
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings,
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, suggested by Tasha.
“You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.”
E.M. Forster, suggested by Lisa.
Please share your favourite quotes in the comments!
I like that last quote the most.
Ronel visiting for the A-Z Challenge My Languishing TBR: Y
It would be a good comment to use in a debate, I think.
Emily St. John Mandel has the latest quote I loved in her recent novel Sea of Tranquility: “It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day. You wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.”
That’s a great one and so true. How quickly our circumstances can change.