Thread by @tife_e, A Thread of my Favorite lines in Books not adding the [...]

A Thread of my Favorite lines in Books

not adding the names of the book tho

“You see things, You keep quiet about them and You understand

“It would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but I’ll try.
If you listen to the song “Asleep,” and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry, and the person holds you back,

then I think you will see the photograph”

“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”

“ I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people “participate.”

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"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

"I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”

“There’s one way in this country in which all men are created equal there’s one human institution that makes a pauper equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen is the court”

“You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us”

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me”

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine”

“ I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve”

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

“I'm a woman. I have a right to change”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game”

“Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I’ll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.”

“God will never throw anything at you that you can’t handle. Just take it one step at a time”

“My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I’m going to survive this.”

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies”

“A man was soft when he was hard and hard when he was soft. So it was only necessary to keep him hard until he gave you what you wanted”

“The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm”

“The world was a marketplace, and people were either buyer or sellers”

“ A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.”

“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”

“Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter”

“There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they were giants.”

(Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren’t there any statesmen today?)

“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force.”

“We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars.”

“The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.”

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