This thread will be about our favorite quotes in literature. Please share yours. Here is mine


“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”

-Herman Melville; Moby Dick

"The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one of them. Kill them all. Kill their mother, kill their brothers, kill their children, kill their dog."

-Jorg Ancrath; Prince Of Thorns

❝The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.❞
—— Kate Chopin; The Awakening

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning.
-Joseph Heller; Catch-22

"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ozymandias

"Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
-Cornelia Funke; Inkheart

"I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own"
-Jace; The Mortal Instruments/City of Bones

“There are three sides to every story.
Yours
Mine.
What really happened: the truth.”
-Jeyn Roberts, Rage Within

"Fear is a reasonable response to life."

—Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
-Artemis Fowl