Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[astrangerhere]

Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we enjoy it.

- Anthony Horowitz | Magpie Murders

[WT Sharpe]

From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The first speaker is Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, the second is Amy Curtis March.

"You are as cool and soft as snow."

"You don't know what I can do. Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly."

[issybird]

I'm crossposting, but I decided this needed a larger audience than the Kobo forum.

From the greatest of all Dr. Seuss books, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: "These things are fun, and fun is good."

[covingtoncat73]

“'Are they really gods?'

'I never worry about theological questions' said Nightingale. 'They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.'"

― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot (The British title is Rivers of London, though, which I much prefer.)

[Deskisamess]

"I think there ought to be children's books. I think that the child will like grown-up books also, and I do not believe a child's book is really good unless grown-ups get something out of it." --Teddy Roosevelt in his autobiography

[astrangerhere]

There was a moment of sorrow, disappointment, and deep love for his son, whom he at that second wished had had a chance of real escape. Never mind why or whether or who or what consequence or ramification--the wake of sorrow and bitterness and resentment you would trail behind you, probably mostly for me--I just wish that you had made it beyond the bounds of this cold little radius, that when the archaeologists brush off this layer of our world in a million years and string off the boundaries of our rooms and tag and number every plate and table leg and shinbone, you would not be there; yours would not be the remains they would find and label juvenile male.

...

Everything is made perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?

- Tinkers | Paul Harding

[rkomar]

Here's one that came up in my computer's fortunes today:

"It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead."

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by rkomar

Here's one that came up in my computer's fortunes today:

"It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead."

I can think of many uses for that kind of quote.

It opens up a whole new area of plot choices vis-à-vis time travel stories.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

"I think there ought to be children's books. I think that the child will like grown-up books also, and I do not believe a child's book is really good unless grown-ups get something out of it." --Teddy Roosevelt in his autobiography

Same idea as this one:

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

[issybird]

"The real show starts when they've reached their destination and got out of the truck, because then they put on their hard-man walk, rolling and swaggering along with a cigarette stuck in the corner of their mouths as if it had been shot there by catapult, and before you know it there's an uproar like a cross between an old gangster movie and the antics of an Antipodean sailor on shore leave."

- Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo

[astrangerhere]

Isn’t it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives.

The Ninth Hour: A Novel | Alice McDermott

[orlok]

Originally Posted by issybird

"The real show starts when they've reached their destination and got out of the truck, because then they put on their hard-man walk, rolling and swaggering along with a cigarette stuck in the corner of their mouths as if it had been shot there by catapult, and before you know it there's an uproar like a cross between an old gangster movie and the antics of an Antipodean sailor on shore leave."

- Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo

I absolutely loved the Don Camillo books when I read them umpteen years ago..

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

I absolutely loved the Don Camillo books when I read them umpteen years ago..

It was your recommendation that put me on to them!

[orlok]

Originally Posted by issybird

It was your recommendation that put me on to them!

You remembered . Which version are you reading - I understand the recent re-releases have been altered to make them more PC, and lose some of the charm?

[Larla]

Quote:
Isn’t it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives.

Thank goodness that isn't true for when we are born. Oh wait ...