Quotations.

This blog was created to archive favorite quotes from current and past reads, but anyone is more than welcome to make submissions. Life becomes chaotic when school is in session, but I will try to maintain daily activity.

May 29, 2012 7:00 pm
"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

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David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
7:00 pm
"The accordion’s scratched yet shiny black exterior came back and forth as his arms squeezed the dusty bellows, making it suck in the air and throw it back out. In the kitchen on those mornings, Papa made the accordion live. I guess it makes sense, when you really think about it.
How do you tell if something’s alive?
You check for breathing."

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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
6:55 pm
"That’s the funny part about it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me. Maybe that’s why I call when I’m not going to be home. Because I care. Nobody else does. You don’t know how lucky you are to be loved."

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Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
6:55 pm
"I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness."

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John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
May 27, 2012 12:32 am
"They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs."

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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
12:27 am
"I’d chosen them as friends because I liked them, and they liked me. Nobody had allowed me to choose my family. They’d just been dumped on me."

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Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
12:26 am
"Two questions I can’t really answer about fiction are (1) where it comes from, and (2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it beyond dispute."

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Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
12:26 am
"You have endured pain here. If you can endure pain, then you can die. You can be killed here, and your own world will be lost to you forever. Never forget that. If you do, you are lost."

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John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
May 25, 2012 12:40 am
"I stopped the call but she kept ringing back. There was no way I was going to answer, yet I didn’t quite dare switch the phone off either. Ignoring my mum’s call was dangerous enough; switching it off altogether was close to mutiny."

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Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
12:40 am
"There is a great difference, in fiction and in life, between knowing someone and knowing about someone."

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Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books