March 6: Favorite Book Quotes
“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“You can’t kiss a girl into anything.”
Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself in Leaves of Grass
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, The Old Astronomer in Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Such a great list! My faves are the Bronte ones as well as the one from The Handmaid’s Tale. ❤
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I love all your Bronte quotes. Especially Jane Eyre. And that Catherynne Valente quote is excellent.
Lynn 😀
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That Strange The Dreamer quite makes me want to pick up that book right away!
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It’s really beautifully written!
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There are so many great quotes you can find in Terry Pratchett’s book!! Really good choices 🙂
Here is mine: TTT
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I could honestly probably do a whole Pratchett quote post. I might do that for the next quotes/ freebie TTT. Thanks! 🙂
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I love your quotes! is from Jane Eyre.
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I love the Wuthering Heights quotes. It’s such a passionate, powerful book!
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It really is. Full of beautiful phrases.
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Love those quotes from Wuthering Heights ❤
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I love The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s one of my favorite books ever. Great choices!
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Nice list of quotes!
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I like the Pratchett one a lot, and Laini Taylor’s too.
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Ugh, Wuthering Heights always gets me right in the feels. I love those quotes too! And the Jane Eyre one is perfect, I love that book! Amazing list!!
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Thanks! 🙂
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