"Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt": Readers Are Sharing The Quote From Their Favorite Book That They'll Never, Ever Forget
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“Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt”: Readers Are Sharing The Quote From Their Favorite Book That They’ll Never, Ever ForgetConvince me to read your favorite book from just one line.
As a certified bookworm, there are certain sentences that are seared into my soul. Recently on Reddit, user u/u4d27 asked readers, "Convince me to read your favorite book from just one line." Hundreds of comments rolled in in response. Here are some of the very best ones:
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“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth.” — Circe by Madeline Miller
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"It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the ice rattling in the cocktail shakers further down the canyon." — Helter Skelter by Vince Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." — Middlemarch by George Eliot
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“When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed." — Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” — Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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“From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.” — The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
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"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just gives us a long enough life to punish ourselves." — Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite." — Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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"The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her." — Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." — East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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"The truth, of course, is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit." ― Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
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"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them, there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security." — Watership Down by Richard Adams
13.
"Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?" — Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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"In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart." — The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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"He said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity – a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along." — A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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“Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city.” — A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
19.
"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet." — The Stand by Stephen King
20.
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity — they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart." — The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." —1984 by George Orwell
22.
"Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years." — Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
23.
"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return." — The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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"It had been so long since he felt accepted, like he didn’t have to justify his existence — that people just took him on his own terms. Maybe this was the key — to spend time with people who knew you when you were all potential. Maybe, in some way, you remained all potential to them. Your mistakes were anomalies to them." — Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
25.
"Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned, both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo, there is no description of space or love. There is only silence." — House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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"I am always saying, 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though." — The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
28.
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" — Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
29.
"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'" ― The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them, and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words." — The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
What's a sentence from a book that you'll never forget? Leave it in the comments!
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