I have two quote notebooks - one for quotes I love because of what they mean, and one for quotes I love because of the writing. These don't necessarily have a point I want to remember, or find inspiring, but are constructed in such a way that I can only marvel them and hope to learn from them.
I thought it might be fun to share some of those quotes with you this lovely Monday! And if you have any of your own, please share them with me!
"This is real. Unlike the Pea Island beach day and the magic fish, the bad feeling of this day remains. Details fade. For a couple years, she’ll remember her mother’s slippers brushing the kitchen tile. She’ll remember the Carolina blue of her father’s baseball cap. The rest is batter. It’s all mixed up, and none of it tastes good." - The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, by Michele Young-Stone
I thought it might be fun to share some of those quotes with you this lovely Monday! And if you have any of your own, please share them with me!
"This is real. Unlike the Pea Island beach day and the magic fish, the bad feeling of this day remains. Details fade. For a couple years, she’ll remember her mother’s slippers brushing the kitchen tile. She’ll remember the Carolina blue of her father’s baseball cap. The rest is batter. It’s all mixed up, and none of it tastes good." - The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, by Michele Young-Stone
"She feels small, not small how she felt on the beach with the ocean and sky; not small like she was part of something great and beautiful, but small insignificant, like an ant or slug squashed, unnoticed."- The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, by Michele Young-Stone
"Now I wonder if it gets tiring, bearing witness to the last gasp of nature. If it's not only plants my son hears but the gnash of an angry ocean. A shy sunrise. A breaking heart." - House Rules, Jodi Picoult
"The silence was unusual, and we were not entirely sure how to talk about it - not because it was too grave and not because it was too trivial, but because it seemed grave one moment and trivial the next, and so no one was quite able to decide whether it mattered enormously or not at all." - "The Year of Silence," by Kevin Brockmeier
"Norman Bowker smiled. He looked out across the lake and imagined the feel of his tongue against the truth." - The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
"Our house looked the same as every other one on the block, but it was not the same. Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
"The silence was unusual, and we were not entirely sure how to talk about it - not because it was too grave and not because it was too trivial, but because it seemed grave one moment and trivial the next, and so no one was quite able to decide whether it mattered enormously or not at all." - "The Year of Silence," by Kevin Brockmeier
"Norman Bowker smiled. He looked out across the lake and imagined the feel of his tongue against the truth." - The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
"Our house looked the same as every other one on the block, but it was not the same. Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
1 comments:
What beautiful quotes.
Here's a couple recent ones that I like:
"'One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'" Clockwork Angel, Cassandra Clare
"Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future." Keeping Promise Rock, Amy Lane
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