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

"I wanted to get in my truck and bang down corrugated roads, grind gears, thunder across plank bridges. I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time."

'Jolie Blon's Bounce' by James Lee Burke

My family came from the bayous of Louisiana, and this particular passage hits me way down deep in that Ubi Sunt sorta way.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"of course duct tape works on mars. duct tape works everywhere. it is magic and should be worshipped"

The Martian

“Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.” - Your Name

“I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me, sings no more.”
-Fifteen Sonnets, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Don't do what you can't undo without considering everything you can't do once you've done it

"You never have forgave me...
No matter what happens from here on out,
I will always love you."
- Itachi (Naruto Shippuden)

"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."
- from Blood Rites (a Dresden Files novel) by Jim Butcher

"Domesticated dogs still bite." -Philza Minecraft, 'passerine', on AO3

TANSTAAFL*....Robert Heinlein. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

*There ain't no such as a free lunch

"Why do clothes never have enough pockets? Clothes should always have lots of pockets. The more pockets, the better!" - Sophie Foster (Shannon Messenger), Keeper of the Lost Cities - Flashback

This is pure truth. Excellent series, so many more amazing quotes, but this is the one I quote the most.

We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts
With our thoughts we make the world

From the Dhammapada
I never ran into a quote that gave me such a feeling of joy and freedom as that one.

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

"It is the time you have waited for your rose that makes it so special"

-The Little Prince

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” - The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham.

"In a garden full of violent flowers, the lawn has nowhere to hide." - Me (From a book I'm writing)

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway. I’ll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don’t want to die without you knowing that.” - MAXON (The One)

“I thought if I could get into Harvard, everyone would finally say she’s okay, she’s a good kid. But now you’re yelling at me, and soon your sister will probably call and yell at me because of what I did to Grandma and Papa, and your whole family is going to say that I’m an awful kid, but in the meantime I’m trying so hard. I’m trying so hard. Trying so hard. Trying…”

-Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Elizabeth Wurtzel

This scene was so poignant, and very much a help to understand and work through my own past struggles. I highly recommend it to anyone who struggles with or knows someone who struggles with mental health.

he is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot-

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. - J.R.R. Tolkien

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

-Everything is illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer