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 7:01 pm
"It’s been so long in the sea, the eyes and the nose have been erased, its faint smile is even fainter. With the night coming, one would like to see oneself walking the empty beach and bending down to it."

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Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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
12:28 am
"The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who’s to say? In the hush of your heart sounds like a black cricket."

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Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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