I always find quotes from books that I love, and I always forget to write them down. So, here's a place where we can all keep track of our favorite quotes from books and movies - and maybe even find some new favorites.
"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet. (Love me some Shakespeare.)
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
I have some more, but those are the only quotes I can think of right now.
