The Mafias Who Read discussion

we r reading that book for class!!! (Animal Farm, I mean)

"All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them, for I was in an agony of apprehension."

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Pg. 30

“If London is to be devoured by demons, I do not wish to be present for the event. Good luck to you all.”

(points to anyone who had identify that lol)

“Cara was now crying too. Wiping the tears before Naomi could see them.”

Good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson, pg. 251.

I know it is a short quote but it was the closest book to me and I haven’t read it yet so I skipped to a random page and copied a quote, so as to not spoil it for myself.

"'What's your name again?'
'Quinn.'
She turns to Carter. 'Queen.'"

quinn is a queen

“And so the dry and crackling people, the people who spent their time listening to their hearts and feeling their pulses and spooning syrups into their wry mouths, these people who once had taken chair cars to California in November and third-class steamers to Italy in April, the dried-apricot people, the mummy people, came at last to Mars…”
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, pg. 157

"Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all."
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, pg.58

"Decency was a word by which my parents lived: used by this man, it became ugly."

-All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein, page 119

"Merry Christmas, madam..."

- My Perspectives, Grade 7, English Language Arts

its supposed to be a book 😭

oh crap sorry

"She shuddered. Was it happening? A chill of horror swept across her."

- Button Button, Richard Matheson - 1970, para. 148.

"We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night." -the cruel prince, page 286

kessa (taylor's version) wrote: ""We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night." -the cruel prince, page 286"

OMG I LOVE THAT BOOK ))

"There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements. All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind."

The Life of Pie by Yann Martel, page 106

"I need you in order to be me and you need me in order to be you." - Let South Africa Show The World How to Forgive by Desmond Tutu

"I would have come for you. I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk I'd crawl to you and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together knives drawn, pistols blazing. be used that's what we do. we never stop fighting"

I hope I made someone get the feels

Marina_Skywalker 24 wrote: ""I would have come for you. I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk I'd crawl to you and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together knives drawn, pistols blazing. be us..."

( I'm going to bawl because the quote is so sweet. )

your welcome :)...I was struggling to type that tbh. love them

Marina_Skywalker 24 wrote: "your welcome :)...I was struggling to type that tbh. love them"

( Thanks for making me cry tears of joy ! )

np lol

" I promise Matthias, I'll take you home"
actually sobbing

Dude that ain’t ok here ur gonna make me cry in bed at two freaking am

“Kamran had not questioned the statement when first spoken by the king, but now, at his leisure, he combed over every word of their earlier conversation, turned it inside out for analysis.”

This Woven Kingdom - page 185

"secret squirrel lesson #4: alls fair in love, hockey, and meth"

-firekeepers daughter idk what page this is from my head

Because therein lay the one certainty: if that had happened, I wouldn’t have made it through these last eight years alive.
-daughter of no worlds

An opportunity missed, or a life not saved. One more royal I may as well have fed to the Princes’ Bane.
-to kill a kingdom

“Cardan sent you?” I ask.

The first time Val saw anything dead was at the mal by her dad’s house when she was twelve.

CINDER SLUMPED DOWN AT HER WORK DESK, RELIEVED TO finally be out of that stifling apartment.