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

literally EVERYTHING from The Song of Achilles but
"Their hands meet, and the light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun."

What kind of sigh was that? Peril wondered. Was it an “I wish I were alone with Peril” sigh? Or a “worried about my students” sigh? Knowing Clay, it could also be a “we’re all out of goats and I really wanted one” sigh
- Peril, thinking about Clay in Escaping Peril

So it goes.
-Vonnegut.

"I feel like I could eat the world raw" - Madeline Miller, in The Song of Achilles

"You were the sun and I was crashing into you."

Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul... A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
~ Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities

This is actually from a book that was never made, but the subject of a TV episode. In Death in Paradise, there was a book called "The Flame Tree" written by Lizzie Baptiste. In it is the quote "Perhaps, if I jump, I will be fly. Perhaps, if I jump, I will be free." This was a statement the main character in the book makes as she contemplates throwing herself off a cliff to get away from an abusive man.

“What they don’t understand about birthdays and that they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, and ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.

And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven but you don’t. You open your eyes and everything’s just like yesterday.”

Rachel in Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

“Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.” Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

I serve up my heart. You send it back to the kitchen saying "too salty".
- Danielle Woerner 'I Never Promised You a Cherry Orchard'

From Maison Ikkoku (by Rumiko Takahashi, roughly translated from Korean)

Mr. Otonashi: "Kyoko, in the past, when a man died, his wife's name would be carved in red, together on his grave. 'Widow (未亡人)'. The wife who didn't die yet. But this is wrong. [You] are not the one who didn't die yet, but a person who lives."

"You have to be realistic about these things."
- Logen Ninefingers

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

"You’re right,” she said. “All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace.”
- Peril to Soar (Escaping Peril)