My Favorite Book Quotes
"No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him.
Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?”
Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?”
-Katniss & Peeta, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
“It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.”
-L. M. Montgomery
“There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”
-Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery.
“Gilbert, I’m afraid I’m scandalously in love with you.”
-Anne of Windy Poplars, by L. M. M.
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
-Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen.
“…you have been called. And the calling is never random, it is always according to purpose.”
-A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeline L’engle.
“The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.”
-Gilbert Blythe, Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery.
“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!”
-Effie Trinket, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
“You have as much charm as a dead slug.”
-Haymitch, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
“It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
-Anne of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery.
“Life is worth living as long as there is a laugh in it.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.”
-Rilla of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery.
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
-The Giver, by Lois Lowry.
“I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes, I will even laugh through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call.”
-Rilla of Ingleside, by L.M. Montgomery
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
-Katniss, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
“Here’s some advice. Stay alive.”
-Haymitch, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.”
-Son, by Lois Lowry.
“Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!"
-Anne of Windy Poplars, by L. M. M.
“Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?" he asked, meaningly. Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy, happiness, sorrow, fear, every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then— "Yeth, " said Rilla.”
-Kenneth and Rilla, Rilla of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery.
“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”
-Katniss talking to Haymitch, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. The birth...the bridal...the death...”
-Anne of Ingleside, by L. M. Montgomery.
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
-Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen.
"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
~Anne to Mariela, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
“The whole point of my life was to build a relationship with you.”
-Dinner With A Perfect Stranger, by David Gregory.
“One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to.”
-Anne of Windy Poplars, by L. M. M.
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none,”
-Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry.
“I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
-Peeta, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
“Well, as they say, it’s not over until the mockingjay sings.”
-Lucy Gray, The Ballad of The Songbirds And Snakes, by Suzanne Collins.
“My library isn’t very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.”
-Anne’s House of Dreams, by L. M. M.
“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”
-Peeta, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
-Peeta & Katniss, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
-Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen.
“People are more than just the way they look.”
-A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’engle.
“Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.”
-Anne’s House of Dreams, by L. M. M.
“You are a strangely dislikable person. But you do have your virtues.”
-Haymitch, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
I tell him, "Real.”
-Katniss & Peeta, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
“At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite color . . . it's green?"
"That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange."
"Orange?" He seems unconvinced.
"Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
"Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you."
But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces."
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”-Katniss & Peeta, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"
"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."
"Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”
"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."
"Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”
-Calvin & Meg, A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’engle.
“Kindred spirits are not as scarce as I use to think. It’s splendid to find that there are so many of them in the world.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do…”
-Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen.
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
-A Wind In The Door, by Madeleine L’Engle.
“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
-Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
“Love. That’s what she had that IT did not.”
-A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’engle.
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
-Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. M.
“Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.”
-A Wind In The Door, by Madeleine L’Engle.
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
-Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
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