![]() Combine these lines with impressional eager minds of youngsters and you have a whole turning point that changes everything. Canadian author Anne Theriault started a very promising dialogue of impactful book lines and readers joined in with their own stories. ![]() Caution: this will make you clear your schedule for some reading time: Scroll through these amazing lines and try refraining from picking up the next book you see. Tell me a line in a book that changed how you see the world or shifted your understanding of how language can be used or just haunts you for reasons you don’t quite understand and maybe never will. A line that just pops into your mind unbidden, like some weird internal narration. It’s possible I just read that book too many times as a teenager and it imprinted on me I don’t believe in God, I believe in everything.” - Fall On Your Knees Mine: “There is love, there is music, there is no limit, there is work, there is the precious sense that this is the hour of grace when all things gather and distil to create the rest of my life. Most readers had ‘The Lord Of the Rings’ phase and it introduced so people to poetic prose and the fantasy book fandom. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, ch. "The Ride of the Rohirrim." This is one of the most moving passages, in my opinion, in all of the Middle Earth canon, making it one of the best of Tolkien's literary career and perhaps of the 20th century. There are classics that will forever have a place in readers’ hearts. Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. I liked how the hopefulness of the quotation ended on a slightly mischievous “yet”. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” from Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This’s when Huck decides to do the morally correct thing and not betray Jim. This is despite being taught that the socially correct thing to do was to turn in a run away slave. Karen The Dark Angel of Editing Conlin JThere are two kinds of freedom: freedom to, and freedom from. ![]() “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”ĭouglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Of course, ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy’ changed a lot of lives. Then there are truth-bombs like these that will open your eyes! Mostly, because writing instructors always teach one to show what something does then Adams has that amazing description of what some doesn't do and it's a perfect image. Means that the whole world can think something. ![]() Dont fall for arguments that say 99% agree. Fall for arguments that present themselves and stand strong against critical thought. I even want power, over princes and cheyrti. "Nothing was changed when he entered a room, nothing lessened when he left." - Oblomov Vaguely translating from a Turkish translation I read: I am allowed to want things, winter-king.” -The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Ardenįirst time I’ve ever heard a female character say that and it hit me hard.Īs a teenager: "We accept the love we think we deserve." - The Perks of Being a WallflowerĪs an adult: "The best is only bought at the cost of great pain." - The Thorn Birds "every hero is the villain of his own story" (the coldest girl in coldtown, holly black) I did not want to be a boring person after reading this.
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