Here arrives another Monday. I kinda hate Mondays but it’s also the day I post so I feel a level of appreciation as well. HAHA. Nah, I just hate Mondays.
For this week’s post I’m going to be sharing some of my favourite quotes from certain books which will definitely make you pick up those books and read them if you haven’t already. These quotes are just the first part of many because I have A LOT of favourite quotes. I’ve just covered about 5 books in this post and if you do like these, lemme know and I shall do more posts like this one. 😀
P.S. I haven’t just taken these from the internet, I actually have all these quotes written down in a small book.
So in no particular order of ranking… here it goes-
1) “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
– Saving June
2) “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
– Divergent
3) “Have I gone mad?” “I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”
–Alice In Wonderland
4) “The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.”
– Dash and Lily’s Book Of Dares
5) “I’m thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he’s dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren’t about me.”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
6) “It’s just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they made some kind of twisted, fucked-up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I’m not alone. If you look at it at that way, music… music can see you through anything.”
– Saving June
7) “Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
– Divergent
8) The Mad Hatter: “Would you like some wine?”
Alice: “Yes…”
The Mad Hatter: “We haven’t any and you’re too young.”
– Alice In Wonderland
9) “You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”
– Dash and Lily’s Book Of Dares
10) “We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It’s the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it’s racing towards.”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
11) “You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.”
– Saving June
12) “A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
– Divergent
13) “If you don’t know where you are going, any road can take you there”
-Alice In Wonderland
14) “There are just lots of possibilities in the world…I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn’t happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”
-Dash and Lily’s Book Of Dares
15) “She’s cinematic and I’m a fucking sitcom.”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
16) “You’re nothing like your sister,” he tells me. “She meant a lot to me, okay? It’s true. But the things I like about you have nothing to do with her. You – you are so strong and stubborn it drives me crazy. You’re the one going through all this and you still put Laney first every time, instead of throwing yourself the pity party we both know you deserve. You call me out on my shit, and I like that, because sometimes I need someone to call me out on my shit. And you get Johnny Cash, and you take these incredible photos, and everything about you makes me hurt, in a good way, and it blows my mind that someone can be so amazing and not even see it.”
– Saving June
17) “People tend to overestimate my character,” I say quietly. “They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.”
– Divergent
18) “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
– Alice In Wonderland
19) “In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don’t want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. “Game over,” you say, and I don’t know which I take more exception to- the fact that you say that it’s over, or the fact that you say it’s a game. It’s only over when one of us keeps the notebook for good. It’s only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we’ve already gone too far for that.”
– Dash and Lily’s Book Of Dares
20) “Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.”
-Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
And because no post of mine is complete with one song attached… I give you… This cover of Blank Space and Style by Louisa Wendorff and Devin Dawson. It was originally performed by Taylor Swift but this is one of the best covers I’ve ever heard. So do listen to it 🙂
AAND that’s it for this post. Trust me, I have a lot more quotes from these books as well but I couldn’t go putting all of them up here all at once 😀
Again, if you DID like this post and want me to do more of these posts, all you need to do is tell me so. You can do that by rating this post, liking it, commenting, reblogging it or even sending me an email.
Plus my blog turned ONE on Saturday and well *tingly feelings commence*
Anyways, thanks for listening to my ramblings and all that. I can be a little hard and confusing to put up with so yeaa… thanks again 🙂
That’s all for now,
An In Love With Books Teenager.
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