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

Never under estimate the power of human stupidity.

Quoted by many over the years, but my fav is from:

Time Enough For Love by

Robert Heinlein

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

-Kaz Brekker, Six of Crows Duology (Leigh Bardugo)

“to keep
the jeweled prize
always
at our finger tips.”

-The Ivy Crown
A poem by William Carlos Williams

Never sniff a gift fish. Patrick F. McManus

Don‘t know the exact quote in English, but probably something like: „Only those without guilt/sin, may throw rocks/the first stone“. To me, this is the wisest, most life-loving advice...

Out beyond the ideas of rightdoings and wrongdoings there is a field, I'll meet u thr. -Zibran

at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breath from my chest. sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. - Shantaram

"when people say impossible they usually mean improbable!"
Nikolai lantsov / sturmhond
Seige and storm

(exclamation mark because they are about a thousand feet in the air on.... Wait for it. A flying boat.)

"Stand strong, and walk like you belong, and no one will be any the wiser." The Luck Uglies

"Great, let's round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them."
-Jayfeather, Warriors, Power of Three, The Sight

"Get to know yourself" - what good is that? What if you get to know yourself and find out you're a total harpy?'

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore.

"The world stands out on either side/ No wider than the heart is wide; / Above the world is stretched the sky/ No higher than the soul is high. / The heart can push the sea and land / Farther away on either hand; / The soul can split the sky in two, / And let the face of God shine through." Renascence, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Although the dawn had just broken, it had already flash-fried into a hard yellow yolk on the eastern horizon - Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

'She's not here. Not as I remember here anyway. She's something else now, some part of this swirling light and energy I don't understand.'
- The House with Chicken Legs (Sophie Anderson)

This part of the story is where the main character (Marinka) learns that her Babushka (Baba Yaga) is gone, her soul has returned to the stars. I like the phrase because the story is about moving on and accepting life but also creating your own destiny and finding out who you are, which is nicely summed up here.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything. Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
~Sal Paradise
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Every single line of this book can be a quote anyway, but this gives me a sense I can't even explain.

‘You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.’
(Captain Wentworth’s letter to Anne) Persuasion by Jane Austen

“And I felt, I don't know, connected with him.
Not in the quantum sense in which everything was connected to everything else, and in which every atom spoke to and negotiated with every other atom. No. This was on another level. A level far, far harder to understand.”

The Humans, Matt Haig

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you - is that not strange?"

Much ado about nothing
Shakespeare

"Beneath the darkest of visages, usually gleams the softest of hearts."
~This is Go
Nikki Sixx

“History huh, bet we could make some.”

Red, White, and Royal Blue