Quotes from the book you are currently reading

[Apassionato]

I felt we needed a place to share great passages from the books we are currently reading.

Make sure to only share sections that you feel have universal appeal, meaning they can be enjoyed without knowing the plot of the book! And no sections that contain story spoilers!


I'm reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami(a rather popular novel) right now, a fantastic, introspective experience. This struck me as particularly close to life. Note that fireflies are a common symbol for passionate love as well as endings and unprovoked death in Japanese culture - in this excerpt it symbolizes all 3.
Long after the firefly had disappeared, the trail of its light remained inside me, its pale, faint glow hovering on and on in the thick darkness behind my eyelids like a lost soul.

[tovaris]

Hlapci! Za hlapce rojeni, za hlapce vzgojeni, ustvarjeni za hlapčevanje!

Serves! Born to be serves, raised to be serves, made for serving!

[CosmicNoodle]

Bum!

(If you can guess the book, you will 1000000 CosmicNoodle points)

[Harry Smith]

''I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne''

[The Trendy Wolf]

"What a phony."

[Ben_Frost]

"He's not what he seems to be." Athan. "The Mall" by Richie Tankersley Cusick

[TheLoneWolf]

Look at my signature :D

[xXoblivionXx]

"The world is not a wish granting factory" -The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

[Desmond Jones]

"…I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many long month of struggle and suffering."

I'm reading a volume of Winston Churchill's speeches.

Incidentally, is Norwegian Wood linked with the Beatles song in any way?

[carolinae]

Love this whole paragraph

Denial is the human baseline. Fantasy of insulation is our most common habit. We are mortal and can't possibly be expected to fully grasp death, so we inhabit just enough insanity to keep the absurdity manageable. Pretending to be able to deal with mortality sanely makes room for life. - Jaron Lanier in Who Owns the Future?

[DarkHorse4eva]

"Sweet jesus christ on a biscuit!" fathers expression on son coming out :D

[gothy]

this is relevant to what i am working on right now for my exam tomorrow....cool!

[CcRoder]

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

Guess the book.

[audiophile5]

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt." (Catch-22)

[themadking]

"I am the queen’s man still. Today, tomorrow, always, until my last breath, or hers."
From my favourite novels

[OrKing]

"This is the fucker! Anyone comes up here and I'll sling them off! I was the governor of Broadmoor again. My last ten years had been a war. I felt exactly what I had become - a desperate, dangerous man who didn't give a shit about life."

[Silicate Wielder]

"In fact, Lyfa, Klein and Asuna themselves once tried to learn this
«Spell Blast» skill with Kirito, and had to give up after 3 days. Even
Kirito himself noted that he gained experience from ‘Using a sword to
slice bullets’ in the other world called «Gun Gale Online» when he
transferred there. On hearing Kirito say with a straight look that ‘No
high speed spell will ever be faster than a rifle bullet’, even Asuna, who
was already at the level of being unsurprised by just about anything,
could only stand there in shock." - Volume 7 of the Sword Art Online light novels.

Hate to say it, but when your slicing bullets using a sword, you know your badass.

[goodnightxmoonx]

I'm not sure if this counts as 'universal appeal', but I thought this passage from the book "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger was very hilarious & entertaining.

"There were bargains to be had. From a different site he ordered four fifty-litre drums of bleach. This brought Robert to his door.

"Martin, there's a bloke downstairs with an enormous amount of bleach. He says you ordered it, and it has to be signed for. Do you think it's safe to have that much bleach around the house? The containers have all sorts of scary pictographs of hands with smoke coming off them, and warnings galore. Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Martin thought it was a brilliant idea; he was always running out of bleach. To Robert he only said that he would be very careful, and to please put the bleach in the kitchen."

[Sminkelaks]

I read "The Godfather" translated to my own language, so it might not be accurate considering the original version, but here's a try anyway:

"A lawyer with a document case can steal a lot more than a hundred guys with guns."

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

"Et tu, Brute?"

If you don't get this one, then you must be living under a rock.

[LoveLessOne]

The book i am reading is Empath,and my favorite quote from this is "please, understand that im not evil, im just trying to erase my pain by helping others"

[NikosamA98]

"En este país todo es improvisación, una vaina romántica, de aquí que las conspiraciones terminen en tragedias" - Alejandro Padrón - La Ciudad Incandescente

"In this country everything is improvisation, a romantic thing, that's why conspiracies always end in tragedy" - Alejandro Padrón - The Glowing City

[Pilyk]

"Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'œil intelligent sur soi-même : mes premières patries ont été des livres." Margueritte Yourcenard, Mémoires d'Hadrien

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one glanced intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands were books.”

[Whiskers]

I'm near the end of the game of thrones books I haven't really had any quotes I liked

[queenofcontrariety]

“I slowly stand, looking down at my clothes. I wish that there were bloodstains or tears, something to outwardly show how hurt I am.”
Suzanne Young, The Program

[Snydergate]

"We are the Walking Dead!"

[RickMason]

Well, OK. This rather long quote comes from the mouth of Smedley Darlington Butler.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Read it all? Consider yourself a patient reader then. :)