Tagged: Book Quote.
May 24th, 2012
There’s nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what’ll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueller than any captor.
Frostbite by Richelle Mead

∞11:05 am, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Frostbite] [Richelle Mead]
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

∞07:22 am, by lostinthesounds ∩10
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Front and Center] [Catherine Gilbert Murdock]
If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

∞03:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩34
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Froi of the Exiles] [Melina Marchetta]
May 23rd, 2012
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
My Friend Leonard by James Frey

∞10:12 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩20
[Quote] [Book Quote] [My Friend Leonard] [James Frey]
It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

∞06:28 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Franny and Zooey] [J.D. Salinger]
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

∞02:47 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩32
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Frankenstein] [Mary Shelley]
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara

∞11:05 am, by lostinthesounds ∩13
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Meditations in an Emergency] [Frank O'Hara]
Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself.
Sometimes you keep falling; you don’t catch anything.
Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don’t.
Sometimes they catch you.
Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block

∞07:24 am, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Necklace of Kisses] [Francesca Lia Block] [FLB]
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I’m a hideous child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

∞03:42 am, by lostinthesounds ∩8
[Quote] [Book Quote] [A Little Princess] [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
May 22nd, 2012
Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

∞10:11 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩22
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Fragile Things] [Neil Gaiman]
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