Thoughtful Quotes from Knowledgable People

[Bluestar]

All fiction has non fiction in it. Some writers are really talented in the way they will draw out important social issues whilst using fictional characters. If you've come across a quotation recently that really stumped you whilst you were reading it, or filled you with passion about the subject, post it on here!

One of the recent ones i've jotted down is from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor:

"Baby, we have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here"

That's what Mama says to Cassie

[Blue_Phoenix]

If all fiction has non-fiction in it, why don't you make this a thread for quotes from non-fictional books too? One of my favorites was from the non-fiction book Tuesdays with Morrie:

"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

[Bluestar]

you're right this can be a thread for both

[zakk]

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth — so I have always believed" - Jane Eyre

[Blue_Phoenix]

"One friend could provide him with all the friendship he needed."
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut

[AM415]

"I'll join you when hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dubledore's Army!" he shoted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

[Blue_Phoenix]

Johnson, bedtime reading: "God's Secret Power Can Be Yours." I pulled a chair up and watched his lips: glom the inside track to Jesus, fight the Jew-Communist conspiracy to mongrelize Christian America. Send your contribution to Post Office Box blah, blah, blah.
"Sanderline, let me ask you something."
"Uh, yessir."
"Do you believe that pamphlet you're reading?"
"Uh, yessir. Right here it says this woman who came back to life said Jesus guarantees all gold-star contributors a new car every year in heaven."
JESUS ****.
"Sanderline, did you catch a few in your last couple of fights?"

From White Jazz, by James Ellroy

[AmroodWaala]

"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs."

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"

--Animal Farm

[Rain]

"That's right, Sir," said Puddleglum's voice. "And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses." Puddleglum, The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis.

And for you, Bluestar : "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? - a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are!" - Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.

[serendipity_000]

Assalamu Alaikum,

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Love in the Time of Cholera

[Rain]

"I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth." - Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.

[wheelworks]

TO P.S.

Half a league
Half a league
Half a league
Onward
With a hey-nonny-nonny
And a hot cha-cha

P. G. Wodehouse Colney Hatch, 1954

How thoughtful

[Rain]

"It's been bedlam! I thought we'd seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility - cost a fortune, and we never found them..." Manager of Flourish and Blotts, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

"For a fleeting instant Maria thought she saw a little white horse with a flowing mane and tail, head raised, poised, halted in mid-flight, as though it had seen her and was glad." - The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge.

P.S: I know these quotes don't have earth shattering messages but they're some of my favourite childhood (and current!) stories.

[serendipity_000]

Assalamu Alaikum,



You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

A Room With A View, E.M. Forster

[Bluestar]

She fished in her bag, pushing through old tissues, receipts, furry boiled sweets and a laddered pair of pop socks, and brought out her hand mirror. God, it was worse than she'd imagined. The cruel magnifying glass made each pore look like a lunar crater. There it was, the rugged terrain of her face, dustbowls under her eyes, mountains of whiteheads around her nose and a healthy thicket of black bristles sprinkling her chin

Life isn't all Haa Haa Hee Hee - Meera Syal.