Quotes

"Come...dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a Quark, and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg ; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."
--Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen

It still gives me chills

sirius.:

panic at the disco:

Felidae Evol:

"My life is essentially a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents." - Russell Brand? :)

Isn't he a comedian? What book is he in?

He wrote a biography called My Booky Wook.
It's good :tehe:

my mother wont let me read it!! D:
but i love that quote from Russell Brand :D
and also

''I dream about being with you forever'' Bella Swan - Twilight :tehe:

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. "
-- Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
-- Stephen Chbosky (Perks Of Being a Wallflower)

"I was always waiting for you, Mother. It's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back, will you forget that you've tied me up in front of a store, left me on a bus?"
-- Jane Fitch (White Oleander)

It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees — my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being

Both from Wuthering Heights, my all time favorite book.

The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

It's from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

These are some of the ones I have marked in my copy of Gone with the Wind.

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for." ~Gerald O'Hara

"You don't want to fight . . . You all don't know what war is. You think it's riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero. Well, it ain't. No, sir! It's going hungry, and getting measles and pneumonia from sleeping in the wet. And if it ain't measles and pneumonia, it's your bowels. Yes sir, what war does to a man's bowels -- dysentery and things like that --" Mr. McRae, a minor character who makes me laugh

"Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things." ~Rhett Butler

"Bravo! Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others to think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom." ~Rhett Butler

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is." ~Rhett Butler

"All wars are sacred. To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money." ~Rhett Butler

"Why, Scarlett! You must have been reading a newspaper! I'm surprised at you. Don't do it again. It addles women's brains." ~Rhett Butler

"England never bets on the underdog. That's why she's England." ~Rhett Butler

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. ~Scarlett

"The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out." ~Ashley Wilkes

"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battle field when it's be brave or else be killed." ~Ashley Wilkes

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. ~Scarlett

"Be different and be damned!" ~Rhett Butler

"Hardships make or break people." ~Rhett Butler

"I like babies and I like little children, till they begin to grow up and acquire adult habits of thought and adult abilities to lie and cheat and be dirty." ~Rhett Butler

"People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to -- to judge others by ourselves." ~Melanie Wilkes

"The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under." ~Rhett Butler

"I'm surprised at you, Scarlett, for sprouting a conscience this late in life. Opportunists like you shouldn't have them."
"What is an oppor--what did you call it?"
"A person who takes advantage of opportunities."
"Is that wrong?"
"It has always been held is disrepute -- especially by those who had the same opportunities and didn't take them." ~Scarlett and Rhett Butler

"Beauty doesn't make a lady, nor clothes a great lady." ~Rhett Butler

"Everybody thinks differently and everybody's got a right to their own opinion." ~Melanie Wilkes

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." ~Ashley Wilkes

"I have a strange way of not killing people who tell the truth." ~Rhett Butler

"It never pays to underestimate your opponent's strength and intelligence." ~Rhett Butler

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. ~Scarlett

"Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up the broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived." ~Rhett Butler

"After all, tomorrow is another day." ~Scarlett

I'm glad I chose to type all these out. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have found six dollars I had stuck between the pages for safekeeping.

"Do you always think this much, Charlie?"
"Is that bad?"
"Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life."
"Is that bad?"
"Yes."
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

"'When this trial is finished, you'll have more than a reasonable doubt - and you'll know that this isn't about murder. Emily Gold wanted to kill herself, and Chris decided to join her. He loved Emily so much that his life wasn't worth living without her.' Jordan shook his head and turned toward Chris. 'That's not a crime, ladies and gentlemen. That's a tragedy.'" -Said by Jordan in The Pact by Jodi Picoult.

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it." - Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

"'My reputation is already made, Rose. I set my standards and lived up to them long ago. What you do with yours remains to be seen.' His voice hardened again. 'Now get back to your room - if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else.'
'Is that you're subtle way of calling me a slut?'" - Conversation between Rose and Dimitri from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. It makes me giggle. :tehe:

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” -The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

This is how it feels when you realize your child is missing: The pit of your stomach freezes fast, while your legs go to jelly. There's one single, blue-bass thud of your heart. The shape of her name, sharp as metal filings, gets caught between your teeth even as you try to force it out in a shout. Fear breathes like a monster into your ear: Where did I see her last? Would she have wandered away? Who could have taken her? And then, finally, your throat seals shut, as you swallow the fact that you've made a mistake you will never be able to fix." -The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. -My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."--Wuthering Heights.

You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

"You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!" - Harry Potter.

"Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific, really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend." - The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to." - The Catcher in the Rye.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Harry Potter.

"I implore you, if Salixa wishes to accomapny you on your journey you will let her."

-Eulalia

"...the tinder burst into flame. She had to put large sticks of wood on it fast, before the fire used up the tinder. "But you didn't point, or make circles, or anything-"
He shrugged. "Some people need those things. I don't."
She gasped at his arrogance. "Well, excuse me for breathing!"

--Numair and Daine talking in Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

Daine: "I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."
Numair: "Magelet, that is the greatest understatement I've ever heard in my life."

-- Daine and Numair after Daine uses her Magic to destroy and burn a palace and remove the king from his throne, nearly killing him in the process in Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce

For everything and everyone there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

-- Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Christopher McCandless inspires me so much

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

"Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ’cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild."
(that bit always gives me goosebumps)

"Happiness is only real when shared"

I'm a sucker for quotes... I highlight my books like mad while I'm reading if I find something remotely interesting.

"And then a thought came into my brain that wasn’t like the other thoughts. It was closer to me, and louder. I didn’t know where it came from, or what it meant, or if I loved it or hated it. It opened up like a fist, or a flower."
- from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

:D

‘…I will say nothing now of what lies in store for you; you will discover for yourself that you cannot evade punishment. As for the life of man, I think and have often thought it is a shadow. I would not hesitate to say that those who pass for thinkers on this earth, for men of subtle reasoning, are guilty of being the greatest fools. For no one in this life of ours knows happiness. When fortune’s tide flows towards him, one man may surpass another in prosperity, but you should not call him happy...’
- Medea by Euripides

He jests at scars that never felt a wound!
-Romeo
Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare

My only love sprung from my only hate!
-Juliet
Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
~ Albus Dumbledore.

"We accept the love we think we deserve."
~ Perks.

'There is a fair behaviour in thee captain; /and though nature with a beautious wall/ doth oft close in pollution yet of thee/ I will believe thou hast a mind that suits.' - Viola, Twelth Night (I remembered most of that- shocking!)

'Even with nougat, you can have the perfect moment' Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

'Without ever admitting it to each other or themselves, they linked their fates, their futures (their Love, their Madness, their Hope, their Infinite Joy) to his... They fretted over his fraility. His smallness... His seemingly self-destructive pride. They grew to love his ecclectic taste. His shambling dignity.
They chose him because they knew they had to put their faith in fragility. Stick to Smallness.' Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

'But what was there to say?
Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-coloured shoulder had a semi-circle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.' Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

So many from Harry Potter that are either meaningful or humourous to count;

"And they'd love to have me. We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in." - Harry

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - Dumbledore

"Can I have a look at Uranus, too, Lavender?" - Ron

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."- Dumbledore

"Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through..."- Fred & George

"Aaaah, when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..." - Ron

"There's no need to call me sir, Professor."- Harry

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Dumbledore

"Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-" - Fred

"Montague's just been found in a toilet, sir."-Draco Malfoy

"For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself."- Dumbledore. :tehe:

There are more, but I think that's enough, from memory anyway :XD

"I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die." Jamie Lanister, A song of ice and fire

"A dozen more questions occured to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you."

"One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror." Both by Bartimaeus, Bartimaeus Trilogy

"You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want." Roiben, Ironside

"No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court."
"Well, I'm not, he dumped me."
"You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court."
"Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can." Kaye and Luis, Ironside

I just recently started to collect quotes, so these are some of the few I have written down.