Aussie Readers discussion

Im surprised there isnt already a topic for this: a place we can share all our favorite book quotes.
Whether they be inspirational, funny or anything in between. Just remember to reference the book its found in!

I'll go first!

"Dont cry because its over; smile because it happened"
-Dr. Seuss

"For every minute you are angry, you loose 60 seconds of hapiness"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde

"A ship is safest in the harbor, but thats not what ships are for"
-William G. T. Shedd

"Logic will get you from A-Z, imagination will get you everywhere"
-Albert Einstein

"Live as if you were to die tommorow, learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi

(Ive got heaps more, but thats for alter)

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon

And my all time favourite writers quote;

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -- Thomas Mann

"Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein

Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars-------David J Delaney.


The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on-------David J Delaney.

A true poet is one who can learn and appreciate the disaplines of all the forms of poetry----David J Delaney.

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
Paul McCartney

"People say you're going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own."
Angelina Jolie

"In the world to come, each of us will be called to account for all the good things God put on earth but which we refused to enjoy."
The Talmud

"Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us..."
Rai Aren

"It is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-J.K Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

"It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live".
-J.K Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"I can resist everything but temptation" - Oscar Wilde.

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

oo I have a few

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

I have a lot more maybe I'll add later :D

Melanie wrote: "oo I have a few

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very ..."

Love those!

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

-Stephen King

did not know stephen king was the one who said that1

Stephen also wrote...

"If a reader needs a Thesaurus to understand the meaning of what you are trying to put across; you have lost them!"

He also gave me his permission to use this in my 'intro' page in my new book. (-:

Wow! That's great David!

Thank you Brenda (-:

"If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender come, sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!"
poem at beginning of inkheart (was thinking of getting this tattooed on me :D)

all the we see or seem is just a dream with in a dream
- Edgar Allan Poe

maybe we have to break everything, in order to make something of ourselves
- perks of being a wall flower (this is written on my wall)

those of you in the cheap seat clap your hands, the rest of you just rattle your jewellery
- the Beatles

I love Inkheart :)

" there is only one person in the bible that Jesus offers salvation to, and he was a cheat and a liar...maybe the men on death row know something we dont"
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (shadows musings on death row inmates)

the quote goes something like this but this is from my memory I couldn't find it again

Haha!! That's true Michael...love Scooby Doo ;D

"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."

Veronica Roth, Divergent

My favourite saying when my children were young was: "Mother is NOT spelled S.L.A.V.E!" Now I hear them saying it to their children. It's called Gran's revenge. LOL!

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." (Finnick) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,

"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope." Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay.

"There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next." Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium.

"The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well.
-Proverb 42, The Book of Shhh." Lauren Oliver, Delirium.

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." Marilyn Monroe

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty." Marilyn Monroe.

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." Lewis Carroll.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." J.K. Rowling

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." J.K. Rowling.

One who achieves great education, not always achieves great wisdom.

David J Delaney

"It's all fun and games until someone loses and I" - Savages

Some of these quotes are great! I've started on Les Miserables (again - I read it years ago) - lots of lovely passages in it, from memory, but I've only read to page 19 at the moment...

"If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place."

And:

"He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope."

Both from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

Oh goodness yes please.

"Sometimes, you can cry until there is nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent... it would not be because it cared." - from Johnny The Homicidal Maniac #1

" the darkest minds often hide behind the most unlikely faces" the darkest minds- Alexandra bracken

Kayla wrote: "" the darkest minds often hide behind the most unlikely faces" the darkest minds- Alexandra bracken"

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

By this grace dissolved in place

"What is this face, less clear and clearer
The pulse in the arm, less strong and stronger—
Given or lent? more distant than stars and nearer than the eye
Whispers and small laughter between leaves and hurrying feet
Under sleep, where all the waters meet."
T S Eliot "Marina" (I love Eliot sooooo much)

I loved this one I read today:

"Now he worked automatically, without aim. Work was a sedative for a man with a magic uncle bent on liquor, a lying wife, a bastard child; all within his walls."

Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.” bell hooks

I am having a hard time pinpointing in which of her books she said this but I think it was:

<3 Bell Hooks

My favourite writing quote is from Dorothy Parker:

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

I am enjoying reading the quotes that have references to the books. There are so many made-up one these days that I'm suspicious of a lot. My personal current favourite isn't a bit of philosophy but rather one of the best descriptive passages I've read lately from
One Hundred Years of Solitude
". . . and even José Arcadio Buendía under the solitary chestnut tree had the impression that an earthquake was breaking up the house. A huge man had arrived. His square shoulders barely fitted through the doorways. He was wearing a medal of Our Lady of Help around his bison neck, his arms and chest were completely covered with cryptic tattooing, and on his right wrist was the tight copper bracelet of the niños-en-cruz amulet. His skin was tanned by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his jaws were of iron, and he wore a sad smile. He had a belt on that was twice as thick as the cinch of a horse, boots with leggings and spurs and iron on the heels, and his presence gave the quaking impression of a seismic tremor. He went through the parlor and the living room, carrying some half-worn saddlebags in his hand, and he appeared like a thunderclap on the porch with the begonias where Amaranta and her friends were paralyzed, their needles in the air."

That is cool.

“Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs.”


Henry A Giroux―

Stef wrote: "“Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies,..."

How sadly true that is.

Dave Warner, on Broome:

"That was the way up here, night falling more like a guillotine than a handkerchief."

On age

"All life after forty is regret." (I hope not Dave!)

0n progress

"The way things were going, in a year or so a bottle of Coke will be too big to fit in the boot of your car." (Not sure if that is because the boots are getting smaller or the coke bottles bigger!?)

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within it, no matter how slight. - Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert