One of my favorite things about the Kindle is that it saves everything you've highlighted in all of your books in a special file called "My Clippings." I am a big fan of quotes. I am always trying to find new places to store them for easy access. This feature of the Kindle is great because it stores so many quotes for me and provides references so I know exactly where I got them.
Today I was going through my clippings reading through some of my favorite quotes and I decided to share some of them here! Hope some of you are quotes fans too.
From Alexandre Dumas'
Count de Monte Cristo:
- "...we frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it."
- "Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own."
- "Have you never experienced for any one that sudden and irresistible sympathy which made you feel as if the object of it had been your old and familiar friend, though, in reality, it was the first time you had ever met? Nay, further, have you never endeavored to recall the time, place, and circumstances of your former intercourse, and failing in this attempt, have almost believed that your spirits must have held converse with each other in some state of being anterior to the present, and that you are only now occupied in a reminiscence of the past?"
- "God is merciful to all, as He has been to you; He is first a father, then a judge."
- "'Alas,' said Monte Cristo, 'it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!'"
- "Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope.'"
From Kathryn Stockett's The Help:
- "No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens."
From Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl:
- "The tales tell us what they can. The rest is for us to learn. The question is, are we smart enough to figure for ourselves? Now, that's what I'd like to know."
From Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief:
- "You have gifts you have only begun to know."
- "Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. Hades feeds on doubt and hopelessness. He will trick you if he can, make you mistrust your own judgment. Once you are in his realm, he will never willingly let you leave. Keep faith. Good luck, Percy Jackson."
- "The gods have their reasons, Percy. Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
From Jane Austen's Mansfield Park:
- "'I pay very little regard,' said Mrs. Grant, 'to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.'"
- "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere..."
- "We do not look in great cities for our best morality."
- "He had not faults but what a serious attachment would remove."
- "That is what I dislike most particularly. It raises my spleen more than anything, to have the pretense of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing, whatever it be!"
From Edgar Rice Burroughs' Gods of Mars:
- "The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most."
From Edgar Rice Burroughs' Warlords of Mars:
- "It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them."
- "...right was on my side, and I think that that must give a man greater confidence than though he knew himself to be battling in a wicked cause."
From Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone:
- "For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve-like the soul's version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable."
- "'I have no strategy,' said Zuzana. 'I just want to skip all this and get to the part where he's my boyfriend. Not to mention, you know, the part where he's aware I exist.'"
- "Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic."
- "You'd have to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs."
- "'Beauty,' Brimstone had scoffed once. 'Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.'"
- "Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength."
From Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars:
- "An undisciplined imagination is worse than no imagination at all. It can do more harm."
- "'Even in that world,' the caterpillar said, 'where no one knew you were a princess, you were to marry royalty. It seems that destiny will not let you deny who you are.'"
From Lauren Oliver's Delirium:
- "You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right?"
- It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
- "The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone."
