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All time, favourite quotes. Anything at all, poetry, lyrics, etc.
I'm making a book of awesome quotes because I always forget the best words, so if you have any, it would be great to share :]
I'm making a book of awesome quotes because I always forget the best words, so if you have any, it would be great to share :]
""We're prisoners of war," Chacko said. "Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our Joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter,"" -Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live." -Conor Oberst, Hit the Switch
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed in seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us and we drown." -T.S. Eliot, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
"He had a dream," I says, "and it shot him." -Mark Twain, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve." -Steven Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"'Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. It was on television last night.'
'Everything was on television last night'" -Don Delillo, White Noise
"She says brief things. Her love's a pony. My love's subliminal." -Interpol, Leif Erikson
"'With most people,' he said, 'suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun wasloaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are inpossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.'" -Jeff Eugenides, The Virign Suicides
"'Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it.'" -Jeff Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"'They're smaller,' he said, 'but possess the same basic design. Lobsters are classified in the phylum Anthropoda, same as insects. They're bugs. And bugs are only lobsters that have learned to fly." -Jeff Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
More to come.
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