Hey Pandas, What’s Your Favorite Book Quote? (Closed)

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
-Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter

“If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.” Winnie the Pooh
A. A. Milne

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”
― Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

"I've seen boredom. And I've seen excitement. And boredom was best."

Rincewind, wizzard, in "Colours of Magic" (Terry Pratchet)

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
- George Orwell, Animal Farm

i survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me
Aelij Galathynius

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Dune Frank Herbert

Milo: “I never knew words could be so confusing.”
Tock: “Only when you use a lot to say a little.”

-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

"The act of opening the Bible lets the devil know that you exist." -Christopher Moore, can't remember which book but it has creeped me out for years

“When given the choice between being right or being kind choose kind.”

-Wonder by RJ Palacio

But to be honest I like any quote from that book

“Reputation is what others know of you. Honour is what you know of yourself.” Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign

‘You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing’-E.B White, Charlotte’s Web

"The ships hung in the sky, in much the way that bricks don't"

Hitchhikers Guide. Not inspirational at all, but it's a great anti-simile.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Thief of Time by Sir Terry Pratchett

"Takes all kinds of people to make up a world" - some Kurt Vonnegut book

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
- Rilke

"All that glisters is not gold
Often you have heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Had thou been as wise as bold
Young in limbs, thy judgement old
Thy answer had not been enscrolled.
Fare thee well, they suit is cold."
--the Golden Casket, the Merchant of Venice.
"Our cause is no more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
--Screwtape, from the Screwtape Letters. (Truly an excellent book, I definitely recommend it).

“The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.” Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult.