The Book Was Better discussion

Alright guys, I got this idea from another group, and LOVED IT!! Give us one line from a book you loved, or the book you are reading right now. Please give us the book it is from, but other than that, try to let the quote speak for itself! It can be a favorite line, pivotal moments, or even try opening the book to a random page and picking the first thing you read! ;)

I lost his friendship before I ever had it. - Burning Blue

“Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi’ loving you.” - Dragonfly in Amber.

"I wouldn't actually die, but if I tried to break the rules they'd take away everything I value."

"For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing." -The Giver by Lois Lowry

"Special Forces had a lot of four letter words in their vocabulary, but "fear" wasn't one of them." All You Need is Kill.

"To love is to destroy" ~ the mortal instruments

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing"
- To Kill A Mockingbird

"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"I have done bad things i can't take back, and they are part of who i am."
-Veronica Roth, Insurgent

"As you Wish"

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice.

“I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.” -Marissa Meyer, Cress.

Oh my goodness!! I cannot wait to read Cress!!!!!

Cress was by far my favourite book in the series! Oh my gosh I hope you love it as much as I did!!

“If I ever see you again, you traitorous bastard, I'll take out the other fucking eye!”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fall of Five


This describes my exact feelings whilst reading this book.

Love that quote!!

"Yer' a wizard Harry!"- Hagrid(Harry Potter)

Hahaha, every time I read that I hear Hagrid!

I love reading out loud Hagrid's lines :D giving it the inflection makes them awesome haha

Same, although no matter how hard I try I never seem to sound anything like him! Hahah

Well, all you have to do is imagine :D

"Y'll smoke it enjoy it, I smoke to die"
- Looking for Alaska by John Green

"Yes we might die in the endeavor, heck we might not even succeed, but that does not remove the choice" Guardians of Magessa

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

I love that one!

"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own." - Chaim Potok - The Chosen

"I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that." Khaled Hosseini - And the Mountains Echoed

"It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again." Patrick Ness - Monsters of Men

"In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed." Patrick Ness - The Ask and the Answer

"Wendy: Why are you staring at me?
Finn: Because You're right in front of me"
- Amanda Hocking, Switched.

Man, this thread is fast becoming my favorite!! So many mew books I want yo read now! Haha

"In the future Clarissa , it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations." - The City Of Bones

"We’re having another moment, aren’t we?”

“If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are."
-Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles)

"I woke up with a hangover and roof tar on my feet..." Like a Hole in the Head, Jen Banbury. Best opening line of a book, pretty much ever.

"When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking" - Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs

"It's like a beautiful doorway that invites you to step
through. Once you're inside, the door doesn't matter so much anymore."

Thrassis on physical attractiveness, MOIRA: FLIGHT FROM AKRASIA

"If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem."

-Atlas Shrugged

Heh - someone might actually take that as a serious expression of Rand's views (and think it profound!). Perhaps it would be a good idea to clarify - that's a quote of a Randian villain/character, Lillian Rearden. (For a moment I thought it was Ellsworth Toohey!;-)

I never liked Lillian, but I liked the quote just as itself.

“You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."
― Stephen King, Desperation

Oh...I like it.

Yeah it's by favorite for years. King is wildly under appreciated as a wordsmith.

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Wonderfully put, I thought. ;)

Touché sir, touché.

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”

-My Side of the Mountain

"Always"- Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

― Victor Hugo

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

-The Alchemist

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

― Helen Keller