A list of Book Quotes that I have on my phone.
B means book, A means author and C means character.
Spoilers in red
Hawthorne was giving his friendship as if it meant nothing. He couldn't know that it meant everything.
B-Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A-Jessica Townsend
Even as the laws of Physics create order, that order will inevitably descend back into chaos once more.
B- Space: 10 Things You Should Know.
A- Dr Becky Smethurst
"She wants her cup of stars."
Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed so do I, a cup of stars, of course.
B- The Haunting of Hill House
A- Shirley Jackson
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.
B- The Haunting of Hill House
A- Shirley Jackson
"Perhaps, if it did happen, it was just luck. A coincidence. There is a word I like very much, Lieutenant Richler- Serendipity. I think there is black serendipity as well as white."
B- Apt Pupil
A- Stephen King
C- Weiskopf
Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.
B- Carol (or The Price of Salt)
A- Patricia High Smith (Pseudonym Claire Morgan)
... It was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now, because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.
B- Carol (or The Price of Salt)
A- Patricia High Smith (Pseudonym Claire Morgan)
"There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy." And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is the price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
But there is never a way into the before. All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
'This is what playing the piano does.
This is the danger of it.
It makes you human.'
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
I loved her instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
'People you love never die.'
That's what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep the light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long extinguished-stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters. If you stop mourning them, and start listening to them, they still have the power to change your life. They can, in short, be salvation.
B- How to Stop Time
A- Matt Haig
I'll continue adding to this I just wanted a place for all the quotes I've taken photos of while reading because they hit a certain way I guess.
