Keeping with the theme of the last few post, these lines are taken from the books of a few great American writers. Also, a bit of a self discovery/affirmation theme. 🙂
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
Today my theme is a bit dark/heavy; the three focus on the clash of psychological and physical despair.
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha
“For a sweet minute, I am healthy, and whole.”
“I sigh, turn from my husband, and pull back the blankets, exposing my
body-skin covering bones-and watch as the moment shatters, falling to pieces at my veined feet.”
Kimberly Wenzler, Both Sides of Love
This book really caught me by surprise. I intended to start reading it after I finished the 2 books I was already ready and a runner up. However, when I got it I started reading the first few pages (as I always do with new books), and I just never stopped until I found I had read the whole book. It reads like the intimate diaries of two very different but real women. I thought it was going to be too romancy for me, but it was less “romance” novel and more about why we love, and the different kinds of love a person experiences in their lifetime
Share a few heavy lines from literature that have really resignation with you
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering it’s things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1599-1602)
What lines in literature do you know to be unforgettable?
Please share a line or two that has impacted you?
A few of literature’s memorable and thought provoking sentences:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
“A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
What lines in literature do you know to be unforgettable?
Please share a line or two that has impacted you?
A few of literature’s memorable and thought provoking sentences
Starting with the most immortal line:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart;
I am, I am, I am.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
remember that.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1999)
What lines in literature do you know to be unforgettable?
Please share a line or two that has impacted you?
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