“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.” Atonement, by Ian McEwan
“What day is it?” “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh. Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” Street Haunting: A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” Locksley Hall, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.
“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.” Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Eleonara, by Edgar Allan Poe
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?…If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” Atonement, by Ian McEwan
“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.” The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and … More Quote of the Week – no.13
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